ThunderX Networking

[Rebecca Cran]

On 12/7/19 4:41 PM, Marcel Flores wrote:

> Took another look at the this. It seems the issue arose in this commit:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS334880
>
> Manually removing the additional check and building a kernel allowed it to
> match the PHY device.
>
> Following the steps outlined here:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2015-November/012612.html
>
> and was able to get the onboard NIC working.
>
>
> This feels very much like a bug in the check logic of rS334880 to me, but
> I admit I'm out of my depth on what exactly it's checking for.


Interesting - thanks! I'd stopped using my ThunderX machine because of 
the frustration of not having the technical SoC documentation from 
Cavium I thought I needed to fix issues like this.


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Rebecca Cran