bge(4)

[Christian Brueffer]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:40:40PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
> When I do 'kldload if_bge' i get:
> 
> -----8<-----
> bge0: <Altima AC9100 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0x10000-0x1ffff at device 3.0 on pci2
> bge0: firmware handshake timed out
> bge0 PHY read timed out
> bge0: MII without any PHY!
> device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
> -----8<-----
> 
> Is this expected?
> 
> I'm looking for a good card to do forwarding of high pps on a Netra T1
> 200, because AFAICT gem and hme aren't documented to support interrupt
> mitigation nor polling(9).  Will em(4) work on sparc64?  Do people
> have other suggestions?
> 

You can find a prototype polling(4) patch for bge(4) here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/polling/bge_polling.diff

It lacks error recovery though.  I haven't worked on this for some time,
but I'll look into polishing it this weekend.

If I get my Ultra 10 to play nice with CURRENT and Pyun doesn't beat me
to it, I'll also take a look at hme(4).

- Christian

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