Problem with Broadcom 5704 B1 on amd64 6.2 release

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 16 12:44:21 UTC 2007


On Monday 16 July 2007 01:37:40 am James Shank wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've run into a problem with the onboard Broadcom 5704 NetXtreme nics
> on a Tyan S2891 Thunder K8SRE motherboard.
> 
> Here is the relevant dmesg output to show the error:
> 
> pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci8
> pci10: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
> pcib5: memory: end (de1fffff) < start (48739b2de100000)
> pcib5: memory: end (de1fffff) < start (dbca73fdde110000)
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704 B0, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0x48739b2de100000-0x48739b2de10ffff irq 28 at device 9.0 on pci10
> pcib5: memory: end (de1fffff) < start (48739b2de100000)
> bge0: couldn't map memory
> device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
> bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704 B0, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem
> 0xdbca73fdde110000-0xdbca73fdde11ffff irq 29 at device 9.1 on pci10
> pcib5: memory: end (de1fffff) < start (dbca73fdde110000)
> bge1: couldn't map memory
> device_attach: bge1 attach returned 6
> 
> It appears to me that the problem might be due to using a 32-bit int
> for end addresses where it looks like the start address uses 64-bit
> int.
> 
> Any input on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I've also attached full dmesg output as well as pciconf -l -v output.
> 
> Thanks!

Can you try a 7.0 snapshot?  It has different handling of 64-bit BARs.  If 7 
works then we can look at backporting those changes to 6.x.

-- 
John Baldwin


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