Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 support

Jason Wolfe nitroboost at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 22:39:42 UTC 2012


Hi,

I have an HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server in my possession for testing,
and it appears the Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 doesn't yet have
support.  I noticed someone asking about server support on
freebsd-questions last month, but it didn't garner much attention.
Played around with 8.3-RELEASE, 8-STABLE and 9.1-BETA1 trees from
yesterday and poked around the commits to ensure I wasn't missing
anything.  Everything appears to be functioning fine except for the
NIC.

bge0: <Broadcom unknown BCM5719, ASIC rev 0x5719001> mem
0xf6bf0000-0xf6bfffff,0xf6be0000-0xf6beffff,0xf6bd0000-0xf6bdffff irq
32 at device 0.0 on pci3
bge0: CHIP ID 0x05719001; ASIC REV 0x5719; CHIP REV 0x57190; PCI-E
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
bge0: Ethernet Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
...
bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
bge0: link state changed to UP
bge0: link state changed to DOWN
bge0: link state changed to UP
bge0: link state changed to DOWN
bge0: link state changed to UP
bge0: link state changed to DOWN
...


bge0 at pci:0:3:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x169d103c chip=0x165714e4
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor      = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device      = 'NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
    class       = network
    subclass    = ethernet

Anything in the pipe on this one, or any access I can provide that
might assist us?

Jason


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