BCM57810 interface can't go up with NPAR enabled

[Bin LIU]

Hi David,

Many thanks for your dedicated work.

Could you please tell me if there is a roadmap or time schedule to support
NPAR in the future, thanks!


On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:45 AM, David Somayajulu <
david.somayajulu at qlogic.com> wrote:

>  Hi Bin,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response. bxe driver currently does not support NPAR.
>
> -david S.
>
>
>
> *From:* Bin LIU [mailto:binliu.lqbn at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:45 PM
> *To:* freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> *Cc:* davidcs at freebsd.org
> *Subject:* BCM57810 interface can't go up with NPAR enabled
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm testing the Dell Broadcom Dual Port 10G interface card with NPAR
> function enabled on 9-stable-r277476M, I can see all 8 interfaces(bxe0 to
> bxe7), but only bxe0 and bxe1 are active, the other 6 status are all "no
> carrier".
>
>
>
> dmesg reports the following:
>
>
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
> bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
>
>
>
> And here is the device info:
>
>
>
> bxe0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe1 at pci0:3:0:1:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe2 at pci0:3:0:2:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe3 at pci0:3:0:3:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe4 at pci0:3:0:4:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe5 at pci0:3:0:5:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe6 at pci0:3:0:6:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> bxe7 at pci0:3:0:7:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>
>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>
>     device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
>
>     class      = network
>
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
>
>
>
>
> Many thanks if you can give me some suggestions, thanks you!
>
>
>
>
>
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