Hi,
Yes, the patch solves the problem. Linked is up immediately after the boot.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 11:26 Ryo Shimizu <r...@nerv.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> >> Recently I received Asus XG-C100F SFP+ network controller based on
> >> Aquantia AQC100. Though, it's currently supported by aq(4) driver, I
> >> believe it should be relatively easy to add. I tried to blindly add
> >> the device to the list and even made it work, unfortunately with some
> >> caveats. To make work I need to boot into the system first and
> >> physically reattach the cable (I am using DAC). Even if cable is
> >> attached and system boots, media type is not recognized and reports as
> >> if link is missing, unless I physically reattach it. After that it
> >> properly configures and dhcpcd assigns IP address. I can successfully
> >> access the network. Any ideas why I need to reattach the cable?
>
> I'm not sure, but in the case of FIBRE, the behavior around link status
> may be different from TP.
> As a workaround, following patch to force polling linkstat. Will this
> solve the problem?
>
> cvs -q diff -U8 -a -p if_aq.c
> Index: if_aq.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/pci/if_aq.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -U 8 -a -p -r1.11 if_aq.c
> --- if_aq.c 15 Feb 2020 12:20:35 -0000 1.11
> +++ if_aq.c 22 Apr 2020 08:02:02 -0000
> @@ -1301,16 +1301,21 @@ aq_attach(device_t parent, device_t self
> sc->sc_use_txrx_independent_intr = false;
> sc->sc_poll_linkstat = true;
> sc->sc_msix = true;
> } else {
> /* giving up using MSI-X */
> sc->sc_msix = false;
> }
>
> +#define FORCE_POLL_LINKSTAT
> +#ifdef FORCE_POLL_LINKSTAT
> + sc->sc_poll_linkstat = true;
> +#endif
> +
> aprint_debug_dev(sc->sc_dev,
> "ncpu=%d, pci_msix_count=%d."
> " allocate %d interrupts for %d%s queues%s\n",
> ncpu, msixcount,
> (sc->sc_use_txrx_independent_intr ?
> (sc->sc_nqueues * 2) : sc->sc_nqueues) +
> (sc->sc_poll_linkstat ? 0 : 1),
> sc->sc_nqueues,
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> ryo shimizu
>
