Broadcom 5780

[Pavol Čierny]

Problem solved.

The bge driver in STABLE has been modified yesterday, and it works

if_bge.c,v 1.91.2.15 2006/08/02 15:01:59 glebius

although it detects the NIC as 5714... maybe it's 5714 and not 5780
... but it works... :)

Thanks for the hints

---
Best regards
Pavol Čierny


> The best solution would be to MFC the driver from -CURRENT to
> 6.1R, the second alternative would be to add the 5780 PCI
> vendor/device ID to the 6.1R driver, add a BGE_ASICREV_BCM5780
> definition to if_bgereg.h, and make sure that any references to the
> 5714 also include a reference to the 5780.  (Try a diff between
> 1.134 and 1.135 on -CURRENT to quickly identify the relevant
> changes.)

> Dave

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pavol Čierny [mailto:pavol at cierny.sk] 
>> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:26 AM
>> To: David (Controller AE) Christensen
>> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Broadcom 5780
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I wrote some weeks ago about broadcom 5780 that wasn't detected in
>> FreeBSD 6.1R
>> 
>> After trying CURRENT, it was detected, but as Broadcom 5714 (i didn't
>> know it was 5714)....
>> 
>> In the documentation of bge in FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x it says that the
>> driver already has support for 5714...
>> 
>> What can I do that FreeBSD detects my NICs?
>> I don't want to use CURRENT on the server...
>> 
>> Thanks for any help
>> 
>> ---
>> Best regards
>> Pavol Čierny
>> 
>> 
>> > I don't maintain that driver so I don't know the answer to that.
>> 
>> > Dave 
>> 
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Pavol Čierny [mailto:pavol at cierny.sk] 
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:43 AM
>> >> To: David (Controller AE) Christensen
>> >> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>> >> Subject: Re: Broadcom 5780
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks for the info.
>> >> 
>> >> Any chances it get's into STABLE in a near term?
>> >> Could I use the driver code and compile it in STABLE? :)
>> >> 
>> >> ---
>> >> S pozdravom
>> >> Pavol Čierny
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> > Pavol,
>> >> 
>> >> > The 5780 is functionally equivalent to the 5714.  Support for the
>> >> > 5780 was added to -CURRENT on June 29, 2006 in version 1.135 of
>> >> > if_bge.c.
>> >> 
>> >> > Dave 
>> >> 
>> >> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> >> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org 
>> >> >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pavol Cierny
>> >> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:17 AM
>> >> >> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>> >> >> Subject: Broadcom 5780
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Hello,
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> has anyone information about implementing Broadcom 5780 
>> to the bge
>> >> >> driver?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Just bought a Fujitsu-Siemens RX220 server, and the NICs 
>> >> don't work :(
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> ---
>> >> >> Best regards
>> >> >> Pavol Čierny
>> >> >> 
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