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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:43:25 +0000
From:      "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com>
To:        "pyunyh@gmail.com" <pyunyh@gmail.com>, "Sean Bruno" <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc:        John <jwd@freebsd.org>, Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>, David Christensen <davidch@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Dell PowerEdge R820 Broadcom BCM57800 support
Message-ID:  <3A5015FE9E557D448AF7238AF0ACE20A225550@IRVEXCHMB11.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120910203054.GA3557@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
References:  <20120816165651.GA39870@FreeBSD.org> <1347050759.3479.8.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <20120910203054.GA3557@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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> > >    I have an R820 I'm testing. The system seems to boot up fine, but
> > > no network adapters show up. From pciconf -l :
> > >
> > > none4@pci0:1:0:0:       class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x1f5c1028
> chip=3D0x168a14e4 rev=3D0x10 hdr=3D0x00
> > > none5@pci0:1:0:1:       class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x1f5c1028
> chip=3D0x168a14e4 rev=3D0x10 hdr=3D0x00
> > > none6@pci0:1:0:2:       class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x1f671028
> chip=3D0x168a14e4 rev=3D0x10 hdr=3D0x00
> > > none7@pci0:1:0:3:       class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x1f671028
> chip=3D0x168a14e4 rev=3D0x10 hdr=3D0x00
> > >
> > > which appears to be these:
> > >
> > > Broadcom BCM57800 NetXtreme II 10 GigE   1f5c
> > > Broadcom BCM57800 NetXtreme II 1 GigE    1f67
>=20
> The chipid is 0x168a14e4 which indicates vendor is Broadcom and
> device is NetXtreme II BCM57800 10G gigabit ethernet. I guess
> bxe(4) would be right driver to pick up the controller but it seems
> there is no support for BCM57800 in bxe(4) at this moment.
> Probably David can add more comment on this(CCed).

No committed plans to update bxe(4) to support BCM57712 or=20
BCM578XX at the moment.  If you have a near term need for 10Gb=20
controllers on this platform you'll need to select an alternate rNDC=20
adapter when you order the system.

I posted a request on freebsd-jobs last month looking for
someone who would be interested in the work if you can
recommend someone.  Not all of the documentation=20
required for the effort is publically available so an NDA
will likely be required to do the work.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/2012-August/000809.html

Dave




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