Re: BCM5754 supported in 6.2 release?
Mike Jakubik wrote: Yi-Hua Edward Yang wrote: I asked the question below a while back but got no answer. Does that mean BCM5754 integrated GbE will not be supported by 6.2 release at all? The HARDWARE.TXT file does not list it, but the source code seems to have the BCM5754 support, or at least so the CVS comments say. Does anyone know when if_bge will support BCM5754 GbE? We really hope to run FreeBSD on our Dell Precision desktops. If the source code mentions support, then it most likely will be supported but has not made it to the docs yet. To be sure, download ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/6.2-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso , boot it up and see for yourself. Hi, thanks for your reply and suggestion. I downloaded FreeBSD 6.2 Beta2 and tried to boot it on Dell Precision 390. It failed with the same sympton as before (upgrade 6.1 release by cvsup and buildkernel/buildworld). The BCM5754 device is recognized (wrongly) as BCM5787, folloed by a kernel trap 19. This problem effectively makes FreeBSD 6.2 Beta2 unusable on any new Dell Precision machines. Please help, anyone? Thanks in advance! Edward ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BCM5754 supported in 6.2 release?
I asked the question below a while back but got no answer. Does that mean BCM5754 integrated GbE will not be supported by 6.2 release at all? The HARDWARE.TXT file does not list it, but the source code seems to have the BCM5754 support, or at least so the CVS comments say. Does anyone know when if_bge will support BCM5754 GbE? We really hope to run FreeBSD on our Dell Precision desktops. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Edward Yi-Hua Edward Yang wrote: Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dell Precision 390, which has an on-board BCM5754 GbE NIC that was not recognized. A quick look into the CVS shows that its support is added at if_bge.c rev. 1.91.2.15, later than what is found in 6.1. So I performed cvsup, rebuilt world and kernel with if_bge as a separate module. Loading the module after reboot put kernel to fatal trap 19. Furthermore, the device recognized by the module is wrong - BCM5787 instead of BCM5754. (I checked with pciconf that the on-board GbE does have the device ID of BCM5754.) Below is the fatal trap message - bge0: Broadcom unknown BCM5787, ASIC rev. 0xb002 mem 0xecef-0xecef irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4 kernel trap 19 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc088c873 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe74caa48 frame pointer = 0x28:0xe74caa54 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= IOPL = 0 current process = 547 (kldload) [thread pid 547 tid 100071 ] Stopped at 0xc088c873 = pcireg_cfgwrite+0xa3: nop db I suspect some problem in if_bge for BCM5754 when merging the device driver source with HEAD after 6.1 release, but I do not have enough knowledge to debug the driver. I hope someone with knowledge of if_bge device driver source could help. Please let me know if other information is needed. Thanks. Sincerely, Edward ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BCM5754 supported in 6.2 release?
Yi-Hua Edward Yang wrote: I asked the question below a while back but got no answer. Does that mean BCM5754 integrated GbE will not be supported by 6.2 release at all? The HARDWARE.TXT file does not list it, but the source code seems to have the BCM5754 support, or at least so the CVS comments say. Does anyone know when if_bge will support BCM5754 GbE? We really hope to run FreeBSD on our Dell Precision desktops. If the source code mentions support, then it most likely will be supported but has not made it to the docs yet. To be sure, download ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/6.2-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso , boot it up and see for yourself. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
