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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:27:17 -0500
From:      Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bge on the new Mac Mini
Message-ID:  <50A66965.20109@wintek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121116162045.GC24320@in-addr.com>
References:  <50A65BFC.7030406@wintek.com> <50A65EB5.7040004@mu.org> <50A66198.6060108@wintek.com> <20121116162045.GC24320@in-addr.com>

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On 11/16/12 11:20, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:54:00AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>> On 11/16/12 10:41, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> Often that is all that is needed.  It's worth a shot and reporting back.
>>>
>>> Do you know how to update the table in the driver, rebuild/install 
>>> kernel and check?
>>>
>>> -Alfred
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid not. I grepped for the hex value reported on the one that works
>> (chip=0x16b414e4), but I couldn't find it in its entirety, 16b4, or 14e4. So I
>> don't know what to add :-(
>>
>> I don't have any problem with rebuilding and installing a new kernel, though.
> 
> 14e4 is the ID for Broadcom
> 16b4 is the ID for BCM57765, a NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile chip
> 
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/determine_driver.php has a list
> of the BCM PCI ID values
> 
> There is a (frequently incomplete) database of user reported PCI values at
> http://www.pcidatabase.com.  It has the BCM ID (14e4), but not your chip
> 
> Linux uses the tg3 driver for that chipset apparently, but I think thats
> a general dumping ground for a lot of Broadcom products.  Not sure what the
> appropriate FreeBSD driver to add the ID code to would be.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary
> 

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I grepped for those values in
/usr/src/sys/dev/bge/*, since that's the driver that's used on the older minis.
I assume that's where the table is that Alfred mentioned; I just don't know what
to add to it.

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