Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

From: Boris Georgiev (maav_at_bastun.net)
Date: 07/17/03

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    To: "william paul" <wpaul@windriver.com>
    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:38:28 +0300
    
    

    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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