BCM57810 interface can't go up with NPAR enabled

[David Somayajulu]

Hi Bin,
Sorry for the delayed response. bxe driver currently does not support NPAR.
-david S.

From: Bin LIU [mailto:binliu.lqbn at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:45 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: davidcs at freebsd.org
Subject: BCM57810 interface can't go up with NPAR enabled

Hi,

I'm testing the Dell Broadcom Dual Port 10G interface card with NPAR function enabled on 9-stable-r277476M, I can see all 8 interfaces(bxe0 to bxe7), but only bxe0 and bxe1 are active, the other 6 status are all "no carrier".

dmesg reports the following:

bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe3: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe5: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request
bxe4: WARNING: Interface link is down, ignoring transmit request

And here is the device info:

bxe0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe1 at pci0:3:0:1:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe2 at pci0:3:0:2:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe3 at pci0:3:0:3:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe4 at pci0:3:0:4:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe5 at pci0:3:0:5:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe6 at pci0:3:0:6:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
bxe7 at pci0:3:0:7:        class=0x020000 card=0x100814e4 chip=0x16ae14e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Multi Function'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet


Many thanks if you can give me some suggestions, thanks you!



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