Subject: Re: gem0 on sparc64?
To: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
From: Yatin Gajjar <Yatin.Gajjar@Sun.COM>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/09/2004 17:11:20
Even though the GEM ASIC had a built in SERDES it was never
productize for both the SBUS and PCI. Best bet is to use an
external PHY.

Yatin

Chris Ross wrote:
>    I have an 1125 with a couple gem Gigabit fiber ethernet
> interfaces in them.  Netbsd (current) recognizes them,
> but no phy is listed, and I appear unable to bring them
> up or make them function.
> 
>    I found some old discussion about dealing with them
> having a built-in phy or something like that, but I
> didn't find anything that looked like an answer as to
> how to get them running, and the conversations I found
> were more than a year old anyway, so things may well've
> changed since then.
> 
>    Does anyone have any of these working?  Anyone have
> any suggestions?
> 
>                            - Chris
> 


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Yatin