Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:13:42 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge(4) Message-ID: <20050924061342.GA1302@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <oqr7bijrw7.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <oqr7bijrw7.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:40:40PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: > When I do 'kldload if_bge' i get: >=20 > -----8<----- > bge0: <Altima AC9100 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0x10000-0x1ff= ff at device 3.0 on pci2 > bge0: firmware handshake timed out > bge0 PHY read timed out > bge0: MII without any PHY! > device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6 > -----8<----- >=20 > Is this expected? >=20 > I'm looking for a good card to do forwarding of high pps on a Netra T1 > 200, because AFAICT gem and hme aren't documented to support interrupt > mitigation nor polling(9). Will em(4) work on sparc64? Do people > have other suggestions? >=20 You can find a prototype polling(4) patch for bge(4) here: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/polling/bge_polling.diff It lacks error recovery though. I haven't worked on this for some time, but I'll look into polishing it this weekend. If I get my Ultra 10 to play nice with CURRENT and Pyun doesn't beat me to it, I'll also take a look at hme(4). - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDNO6WbHYXjKDtmC0RAmRRAJ46dYjE3cFM5im0qiAYAXTtjZvSRgCgxEaU hBUrPM7CsRdqVei9Oi/m8KU= =thBf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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