Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi Masanobu,

you possibly replied the the wrong eMail as at the time of my query no 
BCM5720 support was in the tree.
As it was hardware for a client of ours I used FreeBSD for that 
installation given our timing
constraints. Maybe we'll get another client where I can test the 
-current version on the new hardware
or I manage to get to the co-location to do a quick  -current boot test.
Unfortunately I cannot test right now lacking quick access to the hardware.

Thank you very much for porting the FreeBSD driver to NetBSD. I'll be 
glad to test it when I
have the opportunity.

Best regards,
  Frank

On 03/19/13 10:03, Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
> Hi, Frank.
>
> (2013/02/06 18:42), Frank Kardel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on our new Dells I find PCI-ID 14e4:165f (NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit 
> > Ethernet PCIe) as ethernet interface. Unfortunately the NetBSD bge 
> > driver is not up to support this critter yet.
> >
> > Is there support in the works for it?
> >
> > The FreeBSD bge driver has some fixes and support for a feature APE 
> > which has probably to to with the IPMI support.
> >
> > regards,
> >    Frank
>
> 1 month ago, I got BCM5179 and BCM5720 cards. The latest bge driver
> still has some problems with those cards.
>
> > bge0: APE event 0x00010510 send timed out
> > bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0xc00, bit 0x00000002
> > bge0: APE event 0x00020510 send timed out
>
> If you got this message, please reboot :-|
> The watchdog reset doesn't solve the problem...
> After rebooted, it will works... :-|
>
> I suspect some problem exist in bge_attach(), bge_reset()
> or bge_init().
>
>  Could you test with the latest -current?