Re: Netbooting a sparc64 (netbsd-6)

Hello,

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:58:54 +0100
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:21:32PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> >   Does someone else have netbsd-6 running on bge devices successfully?
> 
> Yes, the bge0..3 in my v210 work just fine with NetBSD 6_BETA.
> 
> Please file a PR, this very likely is a bge driver bug.

There is definitely something fishy.
When I tried to netboot my Blade 2500 things would work fine until the kernel took over - then the bge stopped sending or transmitting packets. A workaround was to add another ethernet card ( some tlp clone in my case ), have OF boot from the bge and force the kernel to use the tlp. When not netbooting the bge works just fine in NetBSD, so OF does something to it that confuses the hell out of the bge driver.
This is what's in the Blade:
bge0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet
bge0: interrupting at ivec 371c
bge0: ASIC BCM5702/5703 A2 (0x1002), Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5703 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 2

That said, I have two other bges where the driver has trouble without any firmware meddling:
bge0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: SysKonnect SK-9Dx1 Gigabit Ethernet
bge0: interrupting at irq 52
bge0: ASIC BCM5700 Altima (0x7104), Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5411 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 1

have fun
Michael