Dual-rate transceivers with ixgbe?

[Jack Vogel]

Hmmm, it SHOULD work, I'll have him double check with the latest driver, he
was
running some stress tests for me anyway. Will get back to you.

Jack


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am NOT going to accept patches to defeat the code that Intel has put in
> > place,
> > if you want to hack the code that's your perogative but its like any
> other
> > custom
> > change, you made it, you manage it.
> >
> > 1G SFP do not work and are not supported, there IS a supported SFP+
> > multispeed
> > that can link at 1G, this was tested here.
>
>
> Jack, understood.  I won't submit my final patch with the work around to
> you.
>
> However, I have a  82599EB with an Intel dual-rate SFP+ receiver which
> will not come in 1G mode no matter how hard I try.   I have dumped the
> AUTOC and LINKS register and the card is not happy.
>
> Basically the driver:
>
> Writes 0xC0905004 to AUTOC  to start AN/Link startup and the LINKS
> immediately reports 0x203c0001 before looking in
> setup_multispeed_fiber->setup_mac_link_82599 etc.
>
> Can you confirm with your test engineer that the Intel dual-rate SFP+
> works in 1Gbe mode on FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -aps
>
> PS The cables I have are good and the optical tester shows they are
> active as well as plugging them into another card with a standard SFP
> module (Finisar).
>