bge on the new Mac Mini

[Richard Kuhns]

On 11/27/12 00:24, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>> On 11/21/12 21:08, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:49:21AM +0900, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>>> On 11/20/12 03:52, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac
>>>>>>> Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for
>>>>>>> things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily
>>>>>>> replaced in case of problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't
>>>>>>> find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> none3 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems this controller is BCM57766.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hdr=0x00
>>>>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>>>>>>     class      = network
>>>>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The previous edition mini (that works) reports
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>>>>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>>>>>>     device     = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
>>>>>>>     class      = network
>>>>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would
>>>>>>> allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not
>>>>>>> familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try attached patch and let me know whether the patch works or not.
>>>>>> If the patch works please share dmesg output(bge(4) and brgphy(4)
>>>>>> output only).
>>>>>> Note, the patch was generated against CURRENT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm afraid it didn't help. I ended up grabbing if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h from
>>>>
>>>> I guess you also need to copy brgphy.c from HEAD to
>>>> /usr/src/sys/dev/mii directory.
>>>>
>>>>> HEAD using svnweb.freebsd.org. The patch installed cleanly and there were no
>>>>> errors during the build, but still no NIC.
>>>>
>>>> Does it mean you're not seeing bge0 interface? Or you can't pass
>>>> any traffic via bge0?
>>>
>>> Oops, it seems I've not included your device ID in the diff.
>>> Try attach one instead. Make sure you use brgphy.c from HEAD.
>>>
>>
>> There's progress! With your latest patch using brgphy.c, if_bge.c, and
>> if_bgereg.h from head I'm now seeing the bge0 interface. Unfortunately, the
>> moment I try to configure it the box locks up completely; it won't even toggle
>> the caps lock LED.
>>
>> Booting single user and running ifconfig shows:
>>
>> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>> options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>> 	ether a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
>> 	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>> 	status: active
>>
>> I did a verbose boot; here's the part that seems to be relevant to bge0:
>>
>> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x57766001> mem
>> 0xa0400000-0xa040ffff,0xa0410000-0xa041ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> bge0: CHIP ID 0x10110142; ASIC REV 0x10110; CHIP REV 0x101101; PCI-E
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> All these information are garbage which indicates a bug in the diff.
> 
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>> brgphy0: <BCM57765 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>> brgphy0: OUI 0x001be9, model 0x0024, rev. 1
>> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>> 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
>> bge0: bpf attached
>> bge0: Ethernet address: a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
>> ioapic0: routing intpin 16 (PCI IRQ 16) to lapic 0 vector 61
>>
>> I greatly appreciate your efforts. I'm sorry for the delay getting back with
>> you, but we had a busy Thanksgiving weekend.
>>
> 
> Try again with attached bge.57766.diff3.
> Thanks for testing!
> 

I don't think the patch actually got attached :-(

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