bge on the new Mac Mini

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> On 11/21/12 21:08, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:49:21AM +0900, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >>> On 11/20/12 03:52, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac
> >>>>> Minis via the memstick image; they seem to be pretty good little boxes for
> >>>>> things like offsite secondary nameservers, for example, and they're easily
> >>>>> replaced in case of problems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However, the newest minis have slightly different hardware, and FreeBSD can't
> >>>>> find the built-in NIC. pciconf -lv on the new mini shows it as
> >>>>>
> >>>>> none3 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x168614e4 chip=0x168614e4 rev=0x01
> >>>>
> >>>> It seems this controller is BCM57766.
> >>>>
> >>>>> hdr=0x00
> >>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>>>>     class      = network
> >>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The previous edition mini (that works) reports
> >>>>>
> >>>>> bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x16b414e4 chip=0x16b414e4 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> >>>>>     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> >>>>>     device     = 'NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
> >>>>>     class      = network
> >>>>>     subclass   = ethernet
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there a chance that adding the new card/chip info to the current driver would
> >>>>> allow it to work? I'll be happy to test and report back. I'm afraid I'm not
> >>>>> familiar enough with hardware at that level to figure out the patch myself.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Try attached patch and let me know whether the patch works or not.
> >>>> If the patch works please share dmesg output(bge(4) and brgphy(4)
> >>>> output only).
> >>>> Note, the patch was generated against CURRENT.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm afraid it didn't help. I ended up grabbing if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h from
> >>
> >> I guess you also need to copy brgphy.c from HEAD to
> >> /usr/src/sys/dev/mii directory.
> >>
> >>> HEAD using svnweb.freebsd.org. The patch installed cleanly and there were no
> >>> errors during the build, but still no NIC.
> >>
> >> Does it mean you're not seeing bge0 interface? Or you can't pass
> >> any traffic via bge0?
> > 
> > Oops, it seems I've not included your device ID in the diff.
> > Try attach one instead. Make sure you use brgphy.c from HEAD.
> > 
> 
> There's progress! With your latest patch using brgphy.c, if_bge.c, and
> if_bgereg.h from head I'm now seeing the bge0 interface. Unfortunately, the
> moment I try to configure it the box locks up completely; it won't even toggle
> the caps lock LED.
> 
> Booting single user and running ifconfig shows:
> 
> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
> 	ether a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
> 	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> 
> I did a verbose boot; here's the part that seems to be relevant to bge0:
> 
> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x57766001> mem
> 0xa0400000-0xa040ffff,0xa0410000-0xa041ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> bge0: CHIP ID 0x10110142; ASIC REV 0x10110; CHIP REV 0x101101; PCI-E
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

All these information are garbage which indicates a bug in the diff.

> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM57765 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> brgphy0: OUI 0x001be9, model 0x0024, rev. 1
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
> bge0: bpf attached
> bge0: Ethernet address: a8:20:66:11:3b:d6
> ioapic0: routing intpin 16 (PCI IRQ 16) to lapic 0 vector 61
> 
> I greatly appreciate your efforts. I'm sorry for the delay getting back with
> you, but we had a busy Thanksgiving weekend.
> 

Try again with attached bge.57766.diff3.
Thanks for testing!