Re: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 FreeBsd Drivers

Hooray, msk.HEAD.diff worked ! But only on the CURRENT..

For those who don't know very well the "patch" tool(like me ;p),
msk.HEAD.diff create some new dirs, you must provide to the patch
utility the -p option(thanks to the folk from irc), here's how I got
it work(not sure if that's 100% correct):
cp msk.HEAD.diff /usr/src/
cd /usr/src/
patch -i msk.HEAD.diff -p

But I need to use it on a production server and the CURRENT one is too
unstable, without too much thinking I just run ping -f 127.0.0.1 and
after some minutes I got kernel panic, heh.

I think the msk driver is a great addition to the 7.0 version, great job !

If anyone know how to make Marvell Yukon 88E8056 work under FreeBSD 6
stable version, I would be very pleased to hear..

On 11/25/06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Nicolae Namolovan wrote:
> I took the hack from http://kerneltrap.org/node/7135, that guy said
> that in linux you must "add the 4364 devID into sky2.c symply search
> for 4363".
>
> I apply the same idea to
> http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz,
> modifyed oem.c and oem.h,
>
> oem.c
> { VENDOR_ID_MRVL, DEV_ID_MRVL_4361, SUBVENDOR_ID_ANY, SUBDEVICE_ID_ANY,
> "Marvell 88E8050 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Ver. 8.12.1.3"},
> { VENDOR_ID_MRVL, DEV_ID_MRVL_4362, SUBVENDOR_ID_ANY, SUBDEVICE_ID_ANY,
> "Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Ver. 8.12.1.3"},
> + /* custom add..not sure */
> + { VENDOR_ID_MRVL, DEV_ID_MRVL_4364, SUBVENDOR_ID_ANY, SUBDEVICE_ID_ANY,
> + "Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Ver. 8.12.1.3"},
>
>
> oem.h
>
> #define DEV_ID_MRVL_4362 0x4362
> + /* custom add..not sure */
> + #define DEV_ID_MRVL_4364 0x4364
>
> After I compile it.
>
> That was sufficient to make this driver to hook mine Marvell Yukon
> 88E8056, I can see it in ifconfig but i get:
>
> "status: no carrier"
>
> Tried to make the interface down/up, put away/back the network cable,
> didn't help.. Still "no carrier".
>
> But it works fine under M Windows (so the problem is not in network
> cable or the network device)..
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Maybe I must load the Windows drivers with NDIS, but I'm afraid of
> performance degradation/instability ?
>
> Marvell Yukon 88E8056 are in the popular ASUS P5B and Gigabyte 965P-S3
> motherboards.
>

You can find latest msk(4) at the following URL.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.HEAD.diff

It supports the device ID you mentioned but I don't know whether it
works or not. ATM the driver has three known issues.
o poor Rx performance
I'm working on this but had no clue so far.
o 88E8055 hangup :
One user reported system freeze when msk(4) is loaded. Since I don't
have the hardware it's very hard to fix. :-(
o Manual speed selection doesn't seem to work.
It needs additional code for e1000phy(4) to fix.

You need latest CURRENT to aplly the patch. The driver will print very
ugly number sequnces but you can safely ingore it.

--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



--
Best regards,
Nicolae Namolovan.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-net@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • [bk, patches] Input update
    ... They include many fixes, several new drivers (mainly for touchscreens, ... core to fix possible races, ... As well as (both as a big patch and split out): ... Separate dualpoint and passthrough flags in ALPS driver. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1
    ... fix for modular builds" patch on lkml. ... stkwebcam patch can be re-done without forcing suport to the legacy V4L1 API. ... config USB_STKWEBCAM ... +#warning You need to configure some hardware for this driver ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)
    ... I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem ... Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on the ... If your em device is using a shared interrupt, ... Note that this patch will not help you if you are not using the em ...
    (freebsd-stable)
  • Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 driver NAPI support
    ... Network throughput is also higher ... Now having never actually done a patch submission to the kernel before, ... and require some extra patches to pcnet32 due to not having ... as most network driver discussion is done here rather than lkml. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • [PATCH] ALSA 1.0.9rc2
    ... ALSA Version ... This patch re-adds the initialization of callbacks and pcallbacks ... USB generic driver ... This patch adds a DSP patch to fix an spdif_bug on some Audigy2 cards. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)