Enabling the network ports on the MacchiatoBIN (Double Shot)

[Aurélien DARRAGON]

Hi Marcin,

> Unfortunately, the integrated PP2 NIC of Armada8040 has no driver in
> the FreeBSD, which is required for both RJ45 and the SFP ports...

Is it a work in progress?
I guess this is related to https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/musdk-marvell: Marvell not willing to develop (Free)BSD compatible version of their driver?

Thank you for your time

_PS_: Do you know about other ARM based boards with multiple NIC/SFP ports that are already supported by FreeBSD?

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Aurelien

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On 14/04/2019 10:36, Marcin Wojtas wrote:

> Hi Rebecca,
>
> niedz., 14 kwi 2019 o 06:10 Rebecca Cran via freebsd-arm
> <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> napisał(a):
>> I've got the MacchiatoBIN board booting FreeBSD 13-CURRENT from a SATA
>> drive, and the remaining issue is that no network adapters are detected.
>> I'd like to ignore the SPF ports and get the RJ45 Gb ports working if
>> possible. I'm currently booting via UEFI, which passes FreeBSD the DTB,
>> though I can also boot with u-boot.
>>
> That's great. Are you using the mainline UEFI or the one from Marvell tree?
>
>> Being pretty new to the ARM world I'm not sure where to start. I've
>> already learned a bit about the FDT and that the McBIN has a static
>> hardware configuration, but I don't know if the dts needs updated, or if
>> FreeBSD just doesn't support the network adapter that it uses?
>>
> Unfortunately, the integrated PP2 NIC of Armada8040 has no driver in
> the FreeBSD, which is required for both RJ45 and the SFP ports...
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin
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