Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 support

[Jason Wolfe]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz at norma.perm.ru> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> On 13.07.2012 04:39, Jason Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> bge0:<Broadcom unknown BCM5719, ASIC rev 0x5719001>  mem
>> 0xf6bf0000-0xf6bfffff,0xf6be0000-0xf6beffff,0xf6bd0000-0xf6bdffff irq
>> 32 at device 0.0 on pci3
>> bge0: CHIP ID 0x05719001; ASIC REV 0x5719; CHIP REV 0x57190; PCI-E
>> miibus0:<MII bus>  on bge0
>> bge0: Ethernet Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>> ...
>> bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>> bge0: link state changed to UP
>> bge0: link state changed to DOWN
>> bge0: link state changed to UP
>> bge0: link state changed to DOWN
>> bge0: link state changed to UP
>> bge0: link state changed to DOWN
>> ...
>>
>>
>> bge0 at pci:0:3:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x169d103c chip=0x165714e4
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>      vendor      = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>      device      = 'NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
>>      class       = network
>>      subclass    = ethernet
>>
>> Anything in the pipe on this one, or any access I can provide that
>> might assist us?
>>
> I got a BMC5722 chip (and IBM x3250 mX systems), but same stuff with
> timeout/resets. I can say 8.1/8.2 were more stable concerning bge(4).
> You could try to switch off tso and vlanhwtso, at least it did the trick for
> me (did it ? not sure though. I was having problems one a month on 8.1/8.2,
> after upgrading to 8.3-STABLE I start having problems with it every day,
> literally, after ifconfig bge0 -tso -vlanhwtso it's running for 5 day now.)
>
> Eugene.

Yeah, I had no luck even with all options disabled.  The NIC
constantly bounces, and ifconfig never reports anything but "status:
no carrier".  No love on the driver side for this NetXtreme BCM5719
Gigabit Ethernet PCIe card?

Jason