Enabling the network ports on the MacchiatoBIN (Double Shot)

[Marcin Wojtas]

Hi Aurelien,

śr., 17 kwi 2019 o 14:53 Aurélien DARRAGON <a.darragon at geoide.fr>
napisał(a):

> 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?
>
>
[MW] Not that I'm aware of.


> I guess this is related to https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/musdk-marvell: Marvell not willing to develop (Free)BSD compatible version of their driver?
>
>
[MW] It is rather significant effort and someone has to invest in it,
either directly or by being Marvell Tier1 customer. We did initial mainline
Linux driver, UEFI and DPDK, so I hope some day the FreeBSD will join this
list. I'll update in case any work begins on Semihalf side.


> 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?
>
>
[MW] Unfortunately I don't have any advice here.

Best regards,
Marcin

--
>
> Aurelien
>
>
> 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> <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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