ixgbe -- how can I use unsupported SFPs?

[Jack Vogel]

You are confusing an internal driver struct with sysctl, there is no ability
to do what you are trying to do in the driver, well, not without your own
personal hack.

There has been some discussion about the issue but as of right now
only validated and approved SFP hardware is supported.

Jack



On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Rudy (bulk) <crapsh at monkeybrains.net>wrote:

>
>
> I added to my /boot/loader.conf:
> hw.ixgbe.allow_unsupported_**sfp=1
>
> Yet when I reboot, I still get:
> Apr 16 23:29:04 kiwi kernel: ix3: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network
> Driver, Version - 2.5.7 - STABLE/9> port 0xdf40-0xdf5f mem
> 0xf8e80000-0xf8efffff,**0xf8f78000-0xf8f7bfff irq 37 at device 0.1 on pci4
> Apr 16 23:29:04 kiwi kernel: ix3: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
> Apr 16 23:29:04 kiwi kernel: ix3: Unsupported SFP+ Module
> Apr 16 23:29:04 kiwi kernel: device_attach: ix3 attach returned 5
>
>
> I was attempting to follow this advice:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/**pipermail/freebsd-net/**
> attachments/20100610/61a9127c/**ixgbe-sfp.obj<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/attachments/20100610/61a9127c/ixgbe-sfp.obj>
>
>
> Will setting a value in the loader.conf file 'set' the
> allow_unsupported_sfp bool to TRUE?  Here is the code:
>
> # grep allow_unsupported_sfp /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/*
> /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_**phy.c:                             if
> (hw->allow_unsupported_sfp == TRUE) {
> /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_**type.h:    bool allow_unsupported_sfp;
>
>
> Advice?
>
> Rudy
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