Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:45:25 -0700 (PDT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Need testers, Broadcom BCM570x gigE driver Message-ID: <20010920014525.D812637B412@hub.freebsd.org>
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Ok, it's taken some doing, but I finally have a preliminary driver for the Broadcom BCM570x gigE controllers ready for testing. The code is at: http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/4.x This is for people with the following hardware: 3Com 3c996-T gigE NIC SysKonnect 9D21 gigE NIC Dell PowerEdge 2550 server with integrated BCM5700 I should have a FreeBSD 5.0-current driver ready soon (like, probably tomorrow). For now, only the source is available, and you need to perform the following steps to use it: 1) Install FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE or later 2) Make sure you have the kernel source installed in /usr/src 3) Copy brgphy.c and brgphyreg.h to /sys/dev/mii. These files replace the copies that are already there. (You can save the older versions if you want.) 4) mkdir /sys/dev/bge 5) Copy if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h to /sys/dev/bge 6) Edit /sys/conf/files and add the following line: dev/bge/if_bge.c optional bge 7) Edit your kernel config file (e.g. /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL) and add the following line device bge # Broadcom BCM570x gigabit ethernet 8) Config and compile a new kernel Preliminary tests have yielded the following results: TCP, normal size frames: 440Mbps TCP, jumbo frames: 650Mbps UDP TX, normal frames: 710Mbps UDP TX, jumbo frames: 915Mbps Hardware checksum offload is enabled by default. These tests were done with the card in a 64-bit PCI slot. Anyone who has one of these cards and can test this driver for me, please do so and let me know your results. There may be one or two rough edges, so don't be too surprised if you run into an unusual problem. Only problem I've observed so far: on my 32-bit test box, RX checksum offload sometimes didn't behave right. To disable checksum offload, #define BGE_CSUM_FEATURES to 0, then recompile. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu wpaul@windriver.com | Wind River Systems ============================================================================= "I like zees guys. Zey are fonny guys. Just keel one of zem." -- The 3 Amigos ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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