Dell PowerEdge R820 Broadcom BCM57800 support

[David Christensen]

> > >    I have an R820 I'm testing. The system seems to boot up fine, but
> > > no network adapters show up. From pciconf -l :
> > >
> > > none4 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x1f5c1028
> chip=0x168a14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > > none5 at pci0:1:0:1:       class=0x020000 card=0x1f5c1028
> chip=0x168a14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > > none6 at pci0:1:0:2:       class=0x020000 card=0x1f671028
> chip=0x168a14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > > none7 at pci0:1:0:3:       class=0x020000 card=0x1f671028
> chip=0x168a14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > >
> > > which appears to be these:
> > >
> > > Broadcom BCM57800 NetXtreme II 10 GigE   1f5c
> > > Broadcom BCM57800 NetXtreme II 1 GigE    1f67
> 
> The chipid is 0x168a14e4 which indicates vendor is Broadcom and
> device is NetXtreme II BCM57800 10G gigabit ethernet. I guess
> bxe(4) would be right driver to pick up the controller but it seems
> there is no support for BCM57800 in bxe(4) at this moment.
> Probably David can add more comment on this(CCed).

No committed plans to update bxe(4) to support BCM57712 or 
BCM578XX at the moment.  If you have a near term need for 10Gb 
controllers on this platform you'll need to select an alternate rNDC 
adapter when you order the system.

I posted a request on freebsd-jobs last month looking for
someone who would be interested in the work if you can
recommend someone.  Not all of the documentation 
required for the effort is publically available so an NDA
will likely be required to do the work.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/2012-August/000809.html

Dave