Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 20:47:21 +0000 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Carlos Pardo <cpardo@fastsoft.com> Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers Message-ID: <7F8471369FCBE1D8AD52A9CE@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <200905272132.30356.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <D13CB108B048BD47B69C0CA1E0B5C032B63A40@hq-es.FASTSOFT.COM> <1536DA231EE20F276D566076@Macintosh-2.local> <200905272132.30356.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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--On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 14:32:30 -0500 Mel Flynn
<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo <cpardo@fastsoft.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing
>> > some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails!
>> >
>> > The error is:
>> >
>> > bce0: ../../../dev/bce/if_bce.c(1386); Unable to write CTX memory:
>> > cid_addr = 0x00000000, offset = 0x00000000!
>> >
>> > files back ported:
>> >
>> > bce/if_bce.h
>> > bce/if_bcefw.h
>> > bce/if_bvereg.h
>> > mii/brgphy.c
>> > mii/brgphyreg.h
>>
>> Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS
>> already.
>
> Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer:
> under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel.
> --
I have not experienced that.
# uname -a
FreeBSD mail.stovebolt.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Wed Jul 2
18:44:10 CDT 2008 root@www2.stovebolt.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
# ifconfig bce0
bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad
inet 66.221.101.249 netmask 0xffffe000 broadcast 66.221.127.255
inet 66.221.101.251 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 66.221.101.251
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
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