Gigabit Ethernet

Aled Morris aledm at qix.co.uk
Mon Aug 23 17:33:27 PDT 2004


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Will Andrews wrote:

>I tested sk(4), nge(4), ti(4), and lge(4) cards on my sparc64
>box.  Unfortunately, they all need work before they'll work on
>sparc64.  However, bge(4) should work as wpaul@ converted it to
>use the busdma(9) portable kernel bus memory mapping API.  I have
>not personally tried putting my bge card into the sparc, though.
>
>The GA302T is listed as supported in the bge(4) man page so my
>guess is it would work with that.


I don't track this stuff but I happen to have a GA302T and an Ultra 5 so I
put the two together:

# uname -a
FreeBSD  SNAP-20040727 FreeBSD SNAP-20040727 #0: Sun Aug  1 04:30:37 UTC 2004
  root at bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  sparc64
# kldload if_bge
bge0: <Altima AC9100 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem
0x10000-0x1ffff at d
evice 1.0 on pci2
bge0: firmware handshake timed out
bge0: PHY read timed out
bge0: MII without any PHY!
panic: trap: memory address not aligned
cpuid = 0;
KDB: enter: panic
[thread 100033]
Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x38: ta              %xcc, 1
db>



I'm happy to try any other code if it would help.

Aled


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