Broadcom BCM57765 support?

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 03:09:07PM -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:48:51PM +0100, Paul Thornton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The bge driver doesn't support this chipset yet and I was wondering if
> > anyone has looked at implementing it.
> > 
> > NetBSD looks like it has support for it.  Now I may be wrong here, but
> > it appears that the BCM57765 is similar to other devices based on the
> > NetBSD if_bge.c source version 1.194.
> > 
> > I've tried applying the NetBSD changes to the FreeBSD bge source but I
> > don't know enough about the hardware and the code is different enough
> > that I haven't made it very far.  I can get a patched 8.2 kernel to
> > detect the device, complain that the ASIC is unknown, read the MAC
> > address correctly and determine there is link but as soon as you attempt
> > to ifconfig up the interface the machine locks up.
> > 
> > I'm happy to try and port this over but need a nudge in the right
> > direction from someone who knows the code.
> > 
> 
> Here is experimental patch for BCM57765 family controllers. I
> don't have these controllers so the patch was not tested at all
> except compile. Recent Broadcom controllers like BCM57765 support
> EEE(Energy Efficient Ethernet) feature but it is not yet supported
> by the patch.
> Also it would good to see the output of "pciconf -lcbv" and dmesg
> after applying the patch.

FYI: Committed to HEAD(r221445).