Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:50:05 +0200 From: Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Gigaswift card Message-ID: <20040807205004.GA3981@timesink.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040807002846.GG19076@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <d63aedc6040806102742f19a97@mail.gmail.com> <20040807002846.GG19076@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 2004/08/06 at 20:28:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:27:27PM -0500, Jim O'Gorman wrote: > > Just a quick question to confirm: The Sun Gigaswift card is not > > supported on FreeBSD Sparc64, correct? > > > > Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-sparc64.html#ETHERNET > > it shows the GEM driver, but that driver is not seeing the gigaswift > > card, so I just wanted to confirm that it is not something I am doing > > wrong. > > Correct, it's not supported. The GEM driver in FreeBSD supports the > ethernet controller that's on the SunBlade-100 systems which isn't > the same ethernet controller as what SUN calls the GEM interface. The ethernet interface in the Blade 100 is the ERI, which seems to just be a 100 Mbps version of the "real" gigabit GEM with identical programming interface (but we have no in-depth documentation on either). We should have inherited support for the GEM from NetBSD, but I do not recall any reports on success or failure with that hardware. The GEM hardware is apparently simply called "GigabitEthernet" by Sun, and supported by the "ge" driver on Solaris. There is a separate driver, "ce", for GigaSwift cards, so it does not seem too likely that the two are compatible enough to be supported by a single driver (but then, Sun also has a separate "eri" driver). - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ <tmm@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ "I couldn't read it because my parents forgot to pay the gravity bill." -- Calvin and Hobbes --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBFUB7H+ZPHUGcd2wRAluoAKCWeBlt9X76ViJOazbgZTLqJw/K+wCgyWij AVGz54DlPHVOaIB6Yw1ofEU= =gahk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--
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