Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:19:15 -0700 From: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: bge/bce support for another Dell card Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90301FD1F42@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <4511AA4A.2070601@centtech.com>
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> We've got a brand new Dell Precision 390 (Core 2 Duo) which has a > Broadcom NIC in it, Probably much like the one in the PowerEdge 1950, > but cheaper and less reliable (if you can imagine that). > It's doesn't > seem to be supported yet on the 6-STABLE branch, and so I'm > wondering if > we would have better luck with -CURRENT, or if the PCI ID's > just need to > be mapped out, etc. The PowerEdge servers use the 5708 controller which is supported by the bce driver. > > Here's the pciconf output for that card: > > none2@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01de1028 > chip=0x167a14e4 rev=0x02 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > > I see a line in the bge driver (sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h), like: > > #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5754 0x167A > > But I believe it's a BCM5787, and when the bge driver loads, > the system > panics because of (excude my vagueness here - I'll get the details > tomorrow) some kind of NMI memory checksum failure, but the device is > fine, tests ok, and runs perfectly under other OS'es. > > Is that device supposed to be supported yet on -STABLE or -CURRENT? The 5787 has a device ID of 0x169b. The 0x167a is used on the 5754. Davehelp
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