copper NICs, a link change event is posted whenever MII autopolling is
toggled off and on, which happens whenever someone calls
bge_miibus_readreg() or bge_miibus_writereg() to access the PHY
registers. This means anytime someone called the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl
on a bge interface, the link would reset. Even a simple "ifconfig bge0"
would do it, though other apps like dhclient or the PPPoE daemon could
trigger it as well. An obvious symptom of this problem is lots of
"bgeX: gigabit link up" messages appearing on the console for no
apparent reason.
Through experimentation, I determined that when a real link change
event occurs, the BGE_MIMODE_AUTOPOLL in the BGE_MI_MODE register
is always set, so now if we have a copper NIC and an link change
event occurs and the BGE_MIMODE_AUTOPOLL bit is clear, we ignore
the event.
Note that this does not apply to the original BCM5700 chip since we
use a different method for sensing link changes with that chip (the
status block method was broken), nor to fiber optic NICs since they
don't use the GMII PHY access registers.
(in particular, bge(4) hasn't supported rxcsum since if_bge.c#1.5)
Clean up some aspects of capabilities usage, i.e. stop using
if_hwassist to see whether we are doing offload now because if_hwassist
is for TCP/IP layer and it is subordinate to if_capenable.
Thanks to: Aled Morris for donating a nice bge(4) NIC to me
Reviewed by: -net, -hackers (silence)
mode. The 5704 apparently has some s00p3r s33kr1t registers for setting
the advertisement of pause frame ability (i.e flow control) when in
autoneg mode. If we don't set these registers correctly, we may not
be able to negotiate a proper link with some switches. (Symptom is that
the NIC reports the link as up (PCS synched) but no traffic can be
exchanged.)
PR: kern/67598
multicast hash are written. There are still two distinct algorithms used,
and there actually isn't any reason each driver should have its own copy
of this function as they could all share one copy of it (if it grew an
additional argument).
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
These are 10/100 only NICs found on the IBM Thinkpad R40E and
G40. These seem to be based on the BCM5705 MAC but with a PHY
that doesn't support 1000Mbps modes.
Submitted by: Igor Sviridov <sia@nest.org>
to configure this correctly yields many watchdog timeouts even on lightly
loaded machines. This is a common complaint from users with Dell 1750
servers with built-in dual 5704 NICs.
BGE_MACSTAT_MI_COMPLETE bit in the MAC status register as a link
change indicator. We turn this bit on now because some of the newer
chips need it, but it usually just means that reading/writing
an MII/GMII register has completed, not that a link change has
occured.
larger than normal frames, to account for the case where a bge(4) NIC
is used with VLANs. Since we set the IFCAP_VLAN_MTU flag, we must allow
reception of frames up to 1522 bytes in size rather than 1518.
Note that it is possible to work around this bug by doing:
# ifconfig bge0 mtu 1504
prior to configuring any VLAN interfaces.
- 5705 doesn't support jumbo frames
- Statistics must be read from registers
- RX return ring must be capped at 512 entries
- Omit initialization of certain device blocks
- Acknowledge link change interrupts by setting the 'link changed'
bit in the status register (used to have no effect)
- Remember to toggle the MI completion bit too
- Set the mbuf low watermark differently (on-chip memory buffers,
not BSD mbufs)
- Don't enable Ethernet@WireSpeed feature for certain 5705 chip revs
- Add additional PCI IDs for 5705 and 5782 parts
- Add a forgotten 5704 PCI ID
Most changes ripped kicking and screaming from the Broadcom linux driver.
Thanks to Paul Saab for sanity testing. (My lack of sanity has been
confirmed.)
(mainly the 3Com 3c996B/BCM5701).
For some reason that I don't fully understand, the 5701 signals PCS
encoding errors as though they were link change events, i.e. the 'link
state changed' bit in the status word of the status block is updated
and an interrupt is generated. This would cause the bge_tick() function
to be invoked and a "gigabit link up" message to be printed on the console.
To avoid this, the interrupt handler now checks the MAC status register
when a link change interrupt is triggered, and it will only call the
bge_tick() function if the 'PCS encoding error detected' bit is clear.
(This change should have no effect on copper NICs since this bit can
only ever be set in TBI mode. I do not know how it affects 5704 NICs
with a BCM8002 SERDES PHY.)
Special thanks to: Sherry Rogers at UCB for allowing me access to one
of their traffic monitor boxes so I could diagnose this problem.
ASIC revision is really the major number of the CHIPID. Also store
the chipid, asic rev and chip revision in the softc for later use.
- The write twice to send producer index workaround only applies to
the 5700_BX chips, so only do it there.
Requested by: jdp
- Do not initalize the LED's to 0x00. The default configuration
the chip comes up in should yeild proper operation of the LED's.
Confirmed by: John Cagle <john.cagle@hp.com>
Approved by: re (blanket)
patch workarounds for each phy revision.
Obtained from: NetBSD & Broadcom Linux driver
- Disable AUTOPOLL when accessing the PHY as it may cause PCI errors.
Obtained from: NetBSD
- Check the UPDATED bit in the status block so the driver knows
that the status block as indeed changed since the last access.
Broadcom documentation states drivers should unset the UPDATED/CHANGED
bits after reading them.
- When changing media types, first loop the phy then set the media.
Broadcom documentation and Linux drivers do this and I observed
much better handling of link after this change.
- Broadcom documentation states that for 1000BaseT operation,
autonegotiation must be enabled. Fix hard coding of media so that
the driver only advertises 1000BaseT as the supported media type
and enable autonegotition.
- Only set Master/Slave on the 5701.
Obtained from Broadcom Linux driver.
network layer (ether).
- Don't abuse module names to facilitate ifconfig module loading;
such abuse isn't really needed. (And if we do need type information
associated with a module then we should make it explicit and not
use hacks.)
as separate 16-bit entities. Some of the ring control blocks are
in NIC memory, so they must be referenced using 32-bit accesses.
Smaller accesses have been observed to fail under some conditions.
This caused the rings to be set up wrong, leading to writes by the
card outside of the intended bounds of the rings. This problem was
diagnosed by Michael Barthelow. Don Bowman submitted a patch which
fixed the problem using a slightly different approach.
Reference ring control blocks in NIC memory using a pointer to
volatile.
Parenthesize the BGE_HOSTADDR macro definition properly.
MFC after: 3 days
o don't strip the Ethernet header from inbound packets; pass packets
up the stack intact (required significant changes to some drivers)
o reference common definitions in net/ethernet.h (e.g. ETHER_ALIGN)
o track ether_ifattach/ether_ifdetach API changes
o track bpf changes (use BPF_TAP and BPF_MTAP)
o track vlan changes (ifnet capabilities, revised processing scheme, etc.)
o use if_input to pass packets "up"
o call ether_ioctl for default handling of ioctls
Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re
pci_cvt_to_bwx.
This doesn't necessarily make bge(4) now actually *work* on an alpha.
It loads, configures, and then about 30 seconds later, my XP1000 hard
freezes. But, hey, it's a start.
Obtained from: gallatin@freebsd.org
disabling memory write invalidate unconditionally. It looks like
they've decided that MWI just doesn't work with these devices.
Also, remove now-irrelevant code that set PCI write boundary values
based on the cache line size.
MFC after: 2 weeks
cards to test; however the submitter reports that this patch works
with the on-board interface on the IBM x235 server.
Submitted by: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>
MFC after: 1 month
of the Netgear GA302-T. I changed the symbolic names in the
submitter's patch to reflect the part number of the chip instead
of the board.
PR: kern/38988
Submitted by: Brad Chapman <chapmanb@arches.uga.edu>
MFC after: 2 days
driver. I tried a few obvious experiments, but was unable to make
the 3c996B-T generate correct UDP checksums for transmitted fragmented
packets. I'm not so sure the device is even capable of it.
This fixes NFS over UDP.
MFC after: 1 day
up when operating in PCI-X mode. For some received packets there is
data corruption in the first few bytes in that case. Aligning the
packet buffer eliminates the corruption. With this fix, the code
that offsets the packet buffer up by 2 bytes to align the payload is
disabled for BCM5701s operating in PCI-X mode. On the i386, which
permits unaligned accesses, the payload is left unaligned. On other
platforms, the packet is copied after reception to force alignment
of the payload. Obviously, this work-around reduces performance in
those cases (BCM5701 plus PCI-X) where it is in effect.
MFC after: 3 days
interrupts. This is a bit harder than it needs to be because there's
more than one way to generate link attentions, at least one of which
does not work on the BCM5700, but does on the 5701.
For the 5701, we can safely use the 'link changed' bit in the status
block, and we enable link change attentions in the mac event register.
For the 5700, we have to use MII interrupts, which require checking
the MAC status register rather than the status block. This requires
doing an extra register access on each interrupt which I'd prefer to
avoid, but them's the breaks. Testing with both a 3c996-T and 3c996B-T
shows that we do in fact detect the link going up and down properly
on cable insertions/disconnections.
Also, avoid twiddling the autopoll enable bit in the MI mode register
when doing a PHY read. I think this coupled with the other changes
will stop the interrupt storms Paul Saab has been harassing me about.
Manually setting the link to 100baseTX full duplex seems to work ok
for me. (I'm typing over the 3c996B-T right now.)
Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking
the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media.
We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified that
they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber
interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm
keeping my fingers crossed.)
3c996B-T, with the 5701 rev B5 ASIC). One thing that confuses me
still is that the 'link state change' bit in the status block seems
to change state an awful lot. I have a workaround for this in place
now, but it needs more investigation. For the moment though, this
is enough to get the driver to work with this card.
ethernet controllers. This adds support for the 3Com 3c996-T, the
SysKonnect SK-9D21 and SK-9D41, and the built-in gigE NICs on
Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers. The latter configuration hauls ass:
preliminary measurements show TCP speeds of over 900Mbps using
only normal size frames.
TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames and VLAN tag insertion/stripping
are supported, as well as interrupt moderation.
Still need to fix autonegotiation support for 1000baseSX NICs, but
beyond that, driver is pretty solid.
