From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 23:11:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE7716A468 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:11:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [216.31.210.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442B513C4C8 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:11:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from [10.10.64.154] by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.3.1)); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:13 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: A6C4E0AE-A7F0-449F-BAE7-7FA0D737AC76 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id 88AC12AF; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F252AE; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (mail-irva-12.broadcom.com [10.10.64.146]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id FLT30000; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com ( nt-irva-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com [10.8.194.64]) by mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424FE69CAB; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:12 -0700 (PDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:11:11 -0700 Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030477CD64@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <48951B1B7222BB1512D27F8D@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Thread-Topic: Question about bce driver Thread-Index: AcfE1e8cOExUkxH0Q0qAkmSMxf+1fgAA3/+Q References: <200707121608.l6CG8Sur002750@ambrisko.com> <469657BD.3010204@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030477CD0F@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <48951B1B7222BB1512D27F8D@utd59514.utdallas.edu> From: "David Christensen" To: "Paul Schmehl" , freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-WSS-ID: 6A886A9B3DG7380677-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: RE: Question about bce driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:11:23 -0000 > Dave, perhaps you could answer my question? >=20 > I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE. I don't use=20 > jumbo frames, so=20 > the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down=20 > occasionally. >=20 > Does the more current driver solve the link state problem? =20 > If it does, can=20 > I use it on 6.1 merely by replacing the three files included=20 > with it? Or=20 > are there includes that refer to other libraries that have=20 > changed since=20 > 6.1? >=20 > Am I better off upgrading the entire system to 6.2? (I=20 > prefer not to do=20 > this, because I have to take the site down to do so. =20 > Patching files and=20 > rebuilding world and kernel only takes the box out of service=20 > during the=20 > reboots. I've never seen the link up/down problem myself, so I don't know if any changes I've made have an effect on it. You would need to change more than the bce driver since it depends upon the brgphy driver under sys/dev/mii which would also need to change. There may be other dependencies upon changes in the 6.2 kernel which would prevent a quick/easy port without some debugging. =20 Dave