kern/112710: [re] if_re driver detects incorrect b243a405a405 MAC address on SMC9452TX-1 pci gigabit cards

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 09:01:23 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:20:08PM +0000, W Forms wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/112710; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: W Forms <wforms at safe-mail.net>
 > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: kern/112710: [re] if_re driver detects incorrect b243a405a405 MAC address on SMC9452TX-1 pci gigabit cards
 > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:16:23 +0200
 > 
 >  Today I run a test using the "NetBSD Live! 2007" live-CD, which is  
 >  apparently based on NetBSD 4.0 BETA.
 >  NetBSD also uses the re driver for these cards. Upon boot all the "5  
 >  bad cards" are detected as RealTek 8169SB gigabit adapters and  
 >  believe or not, each and every single adapter uses its own correct  
 >  MAC address.
 >  SO whatever the problem is in the FreeBSD and OpenBSD re driver, the  
 >  NetBSD guys have already solved it. Or, they didn't scew it up in the  
 >  first place! :-)
 >  Either way, it might be worthwile talking to them about this defect  
 >  or having a thorough look at their re driver code (or the code of any  
 >  related networking module).
 >  I also run a test with a Gentoo Linux Live CD which also uses the  
 >  correct MAC addresses.
 >  Unfortunately this is where my abilities stop.
 >  
 >  Somebody, Please!
 >  You don't have to reinvent the solution, NetBSD already/still has the  
 >  answer.
 >  

How about attached patch?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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Index: if_re.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c,v
retrieving revision 1.90
diff -u -r1.90 if_re.c
--- if_re.c	16 Jun 2007 02:54:19 -0000	1.90
+++ if_re.c	30 Jun 2007 08:58:13 -0000
@@ -1211,10 +1211,10 @@
 		hw_rev++;
 	}
 
-	sc->rl_eewidth = 6;
+	sc->rl_eewidth = RL_9356_ADDR_LEN;
 	re_read_eeprom(sc, (caddr_t)&re_did, 0, 1);
 	if (re_did != 0x8129)
-	        sc->rl_eewidth = 8;
+	        sc->rl_eewidth = RL_9346_ADDR_LEN;
 
 	/*
 	 * Get station address from the EEPROM.
Index: ../../pci/if_rlreg.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h,v
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -r1.65 if_rlreg.h
--- ../../pci/if_rlreg.h	18 Apr 2007 00:40:43 -0000	1.65
+++ ../../pci/if_rlreg.h	30 Jun 2007 08:58:13 -0000
@@ -312,6 +312,8 @@
 #define RL_EEMODE_WRITECFG	(0x80|0x40)
 
 /* 9346 EEPROM commands */
+#define RL_9346_ADDR_LEN	6	/* 93C46 1K: 128x16 */
+#define RL_9356_ADDR_LEN	8	/* 93C56 2K: 256x16 */
 
 #define RL_9346_WRITE          0x5
 #define RL_9346_READ           0x6


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