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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:12:05 -0500
From:      Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com>
To:        "pyunyh@gmail.com" <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bge on the new Mac Mini
Message-ID:  <50B629C5.8050805@wintek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121128001950.GA3390@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
References:  <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com> <20121120085200.GB1778@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50AD32A6.8080209@wintek.com> <20121122014921.GA3180@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20121122020851.GB3180@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50B3872B.9010709@wintek.com> <20121127052448.GC1452@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50B4C155.8050703@wintek.com> <20121128001950.GA3390@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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On 11/27/12 19:19, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:34:13AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>> On 11/27/12 00:24, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/12 21:08, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:49:21AM +0900, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/20/12 03:52, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac
>>>>>>>>> Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for
>>>>>>>>> things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily
>>>>>>>>> replaced in case of problems.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't
>>>>>>>>> find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> none3@pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It seems this controller is BCM57766.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> hdr=0x00
>>>>>>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>>>>>>>>     class      = network
>>>>>>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The previous edition mini (that works) reports
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> bge0@pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>>>>>>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>>>>>>>>     device     = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
>>>>>>>>>     class      = network
>>>>>>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would
>>>>>>>>> allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not
>>>>>>>>> familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try attached patch and let me know whether the patch works or not.
>>>>>>>> If the patch works please share dmesg output(bge(4) and brgphy(4)
>>>>>>>> output only).
>>>>>>>> Note, the patch was generated against CURRENT.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm afraid it didn't help. I ended up grabbing if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h from
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess you also need to copy brgphy.c from HEAD to
>>>>>> /usr/src/sys/dev/mii directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HEAD using svnweb.freebsd.org. The patch installed cleanly and there were no
>>>>>>> errors during the build, but still no NIC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it mean you're not seeing bge0 interface? Or you can't pass
>>>>>> any traffic via bge0?
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops, it seems I've not included your device ID in the diff.
>>>>> Try attach one instead. Make sure you use brgphy.c from HEAD.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's progress! With your latest patch using brgphy.c, if_bge.c, and
>>>> if_bgereg.h from head I'm now seeing the bge0 interface. Unfortunately, the
>>>> moment I try to configure it the box locks up completely; it won't even toggle
>>>> the caps lock LED.
>>>>
>>>> Booting single user and running ifconfig shows:
>>>>
>>>> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>> options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>>> 	ether a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
>>>> 	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>>>> 	status: active
>>>>
>>>> I did a verbose boot; here's the part that seems to be relevant to bge0:
>>>>
>>>> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x57766001> mem
>>>> 0xa0400000-0xa040ffff,0xa0410000-0xa041ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>>>> bge0: CHIP ID 0x10110142; ASIC REV 0x10110; CHIP REV 0x101101; PCI-E
>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> All these information are garbage which indicates a bug in the diff.
>>>
>>>> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>>>> brgphy0: <BCM57765 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>>>> brgphy0: OUI 0x001be9, model 0x0024, rev. 1
>>>> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>>>> 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
>>>> bge0: bpf attached
>>>> bge0: Ethernet address: a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
>>>> ioapic0: routing intpin 16 (PCI IRQ 16) to lapic 0 vector 61
>>>>
>>>> I greatly appreciate your efforts. I'm sorry for the delay getting back with
>>>> you, but we had a busy Thanksgiving weekend.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try again with attached bge.57766.diff3.
>>> Thanks for testing!
>>>
>>
>> I don't think the patch actually got attached :-(
> 
> Oops, attached.
> 

And there was great rejoicing...

It seems to take longer than I'm used to for it to decide it has link (about
halfway through 'waiting for the default route interface'), but it works!

I've just installed subversion, and I'm doing an 'svn co' of stable/9.

Many thanks for the work you've done!

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