From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 16:36:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D07516A402 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606EB13C441 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC08EB7963; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:36:05 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8HnQJ9Ou4KEu; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:35:53 +0800 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (unknown [221.221.168.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7562BEB5169; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:35:53 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=JRLKhXTCS4vpkIIXxQbtYdV3Zi+3DQY/2c4hZMHdNtg3JH2WfZ82plvyh1dy3EUxY 6PuWLPxaiUpE+U80nyqHg== Message-ID: <45C0C566.8040504@delphij.net> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:35:50 +0800 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conrad Burger References: <45FBF1D2998C93429047415BE8091CC8283E08@HERMES.swistgroup.com> In-Reply-To: <45FBF1D2998C93429047415BE8091CC8283E08@HERMES.swistgroup.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6C63576C7F9960DF5B1C4FF2" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Help:: BCE Interface - back port SERDES support to STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:07 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6C63576C7F9960DF5B1C4FF2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Conrad Burger wrote: > ******************************************************************* > Click here to view our e-mail legal notice:=20 > http://www.mxit.co.za/pdfs/mxit_legal.pdf or call: +27 21 888 5000 > ******************************************************************* > Hi=20 >=20 > Could someone please help me to create a patch to back port the SERDES = support > that was recently added to the BCE driver in CURRENT to STABLE? >=20 > I have been waiting for SERDES support on STABLE for about 3 months and= I'm > getting rather desperate. >=20 > I am trying to back port it myself using diffs from BCE-STABLE and BCE-= CURRENT.=20 > But with almost no C experience and even less writing drivers it's goin= g to take > awhile. > Currently my kernel panics during boot when it tries to attach/probe th= e network > interface.=20 >=20 > I would be much appreciated it if someone could help me. I think you will need to backport some MII changes back too... I do not have actual bce w/SERDES hardware at hand so I think I can not provide some useful help except backporting some code and test to see if it broke my Dell 2950 crashbox :-( Maybe you can provide some panic messages (backtraces if you can, of course) so we can investigate further? Note that it would be nice if you could provide diff in unified format, which is usually preferred and makes it easier to read. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enig6C63576C7F9960DF5B1C4FF2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFwMVmOfuToMruuMARA/ekAJ0VzbKaci+SFC5uNNbvr8UCVDwVlgCcC7Jw V88bAPgYI/Eur7CjBfJV/z0= =B15c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6C63576C7F9960DF5B1C4FF2--