On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Sean Bruno <sbr...@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 07/08/18 09:26, Mark Johnston wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 09:10:27AM -0600, Sean Bruno wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07/07/18 11:43, Mark Johnston wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 02:47:49PM +0000, Andrew Turner wrote:
> >>>> Author: andrew
> >>>> Date: Sat Jun  9 14:47:49 2018
> >>>> New Revision: 334880
> >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334880
> >>>>
> >>>> Log:
> >>>>   In the ThunderX BGX network driver we were skipping the NULL
> terminator
> >>>>   when parsing the phy type, however this is included in the length
> returned
> >>>>   by OF_getprop. To fix this stop ignoring the terminator.
> >>>>
> >>>>   PR:              228828
> >>>>   Reported by:     sbruno
> >>>>   Sponsored by:    DARPA, AFRL
> >>>
> >>> This seems to break vnic on packet.net ThunderXs.  In particular, VF
> >>> creation fails.  It seems the problem in my case is that there are
> >>> multiple PHY devices in the device tree, e.g., xfi@0, xfi@1.  With
> this
> >>> change, bgx_fdt_phy_name_match() fails to match against any device
> >>> containing a unit address in the node name.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Huh ... this was *required* to get the ThunderXs we have in the FreeBSD
> >> cluster to work at all.  o.0
> >>
> >> I guess "someone" needs to contact "someone" to figure out which is
> >> correct or we need to replace our FreeBSD cluster machines with ones
> >> that work like the packet.net machines?
> >
> > I think the current code works fine if there's only one PHY device, so
> > my problem is probably just the result of having a different hardware
> > setup.  We can probably fix the code to handle both cases.  Could you
> > mail me the output of "ofwdump -ap" from the cluster machine?
> >
> >
>
>
> I dropped the output here:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/ofwdump.txt


Ian's method is better. But Ian's question is better: are there not
phandles to find this stuff? Names in FDT are kinda meaningless most of the
time (I say kinda here to gloss over a laundry list of exceptions that PHY
finding typically does not fall into).

Warner
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