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Cc: David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>,
	Stanislav Sedov <stas@deglitch.com>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver
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Steven Hartland wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:09 -0000
> "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> mentioned:
>
>> If I understand the PR comments right, the code to support this PHY
>> should be present in 8.0.  So you can start by trying out 8.0-RC1
>> ISO image (or USB stick image, fwiw).
>
> Just tried 8.0RC2 no go, PHY still not supported :(
>
Looking though the mii code it seems the SerDes PHY support was moved 
into the brgphy code in 2007. 
This driver however only seems to support the 5708S PHY and not the 5709.

Maybe David can shed some light on the support for this.


Tom