Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:38:28 +0300 From: "Boris Georgiev" <maav@bastun.net> To: "william paul" <wpaul@windriver.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support Message-ID: <000701c34c0c$8a6b4430$020aa8c0@SABBATH> References: <200307160000.RAA22276@huisne.wrs.com>
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Hi Bill, I tested the driver with the new patch and everything works fine now. Thank you for your quick response. If you need more testing of this NIC, I can always cooperate. Boris Georgiev ----- Original Message ----- From: "william paul" <wpaul@windriver.com> To: "Boris Georgiev" <maav@bastun.net> Cc: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>; <ken@kdm.org>; <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:00 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Boris Georgiev > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Hi Bill, > > > > Sorry for the previous e-mail, but have in mind that I'm trying to cooperate > > by testing your drivers and > > I am not aware of the rules for declaring a hardware problem in the mailing > > lists. The only way I can send > > you the messages from the kernel is if I rewrite them from the console. > > I know that. But that's a small price to pay for free driver development. :) > > > Here is the information that you requested: > > > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5705M Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3001> mem > > 0x90000000-0x9000ffff irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci2 > > bge0: firmware handshake timed out > > bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed! > > bge0: chip initialization failed > > device_probe_and_attach: bge0 attach returned 6 > > > > If you need more detailed information, I can send it to you on request. > > Ok, the firmware handshake does not really load any firmware. This just > checks that the firmware on the NIC has responded to a reset and is back > up and running. The error here is due to the fact that the firmware > initialization seems to take longer on the 5705, so the timeout has to > be increased. > > Thanks for a couple of other people, I have made changes to deal with > this. Please download the latest driver code from the same URL > (http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/5705). This should fix the > problem with the timeout, as well as a few other things. >
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