bge(4) sends BGE_FW_CMD_DRV_ALIVE command to firmware every 2
seconds. BGE_FW_CMD_DRV_ALIVE command requires 4 bytes data. This
data contains timeout value in seconds until the next
BGE_FW_CMD_DRV_ALIVE command.
Broadcom recommends driver set the value 3 times longer than the
interval that it sends BGE_FW_CMD_DRV_ALIVE. Currently bge(4) uses
3 seconds so probably we have to increase it in future and use
different ALIVE command(e.g. BGE_FW_CMD_DRV_ALIVE3).
No functional changes.
This bit(SW event 7 in publicly available data sheet) is used to
make RX CPU handle a firmware command and the bit is automatically
cleared after RX CPU completed the command.
Generally firmware command takes the following steps.
1. Write BGE_SRAM_FW_CMD_MB with a command.
2. Write BGE_SRAM_FW_CMD_LEN_MB with the length of the command in bytes.
3. Write BGE_SRAM_FW_CMD_DATA_MB with actual command data.
4. Generate BGE_RX_CPU_EVENT and let firmware handle the command.
5. Wait for the ACK of the firmware command.
No functional changes.
about the various driver events like load, unload, reset, suspend,
restart, and ioctl operations.
Define driver's event rather than using hard-coded values. We don't
still send suspend/resume event to firmware.
Previously bge(4) used BGE_SDI_STATUS to send events. Because driver
has to access firmware mail box to inform current state, using
BGE_SDI_STATUS register was wrong. The end result was the same as
BGE_SDI_STATUS is 0x0C04.
No functional changes.
The origin of GENCOMM seems to come from Alteon Tigon Host/NIC
interface definition where it defines general communications region
which is active when firmware is loaded and running. This region
was used in communication between the host and processor internal
to the Tigon chip.
Broadcom data sheet also defines the region as 'Software Gencomm'
in NetXtreme memory map but lacks detailed description of its
interface so it was hard to know which ones are used for which
interface.
This change shall slightly enhance readability.
No functional changes.
larger than 4KB in size. However the maximum DMA segment size
created in DMA tag is 4KB, so we wouldn't encounter the issue here.
Just record this issue such that let developers not to create a DMA
segment that is larger than 4KB for BCM5719. It's possible to split
a DMA segment into multiple smaller ones in run time but I believe
it's not worth to implement that.
disabled for BCM5719 A0 revision due to known hardware errata.
Many thanks to Broadcom for continuing support of FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Geans Pin at Broadcom
have similar hardware features of BCM5718 family except the number
of receive return ring is 4. The BCM57765 family is known to
support IEEE 802.3az EEE(Energy Efficient Ethernet) but this change
does not include EEE support code. I hope EEE is implemented in
near future.
This change will support BCM57761, BCM57765, BCM57781, BCM57785,
BCM57791 and BCM57795. All hardware offloading features are
supported and suspend/resume also should work.
Many thanks to Broadcom for continuing support of FreeBSD.
Tested by: Paul Thornton (prt <> prt dot org)
HW donated by: Broadcom
Unlike other controllers which have more advanced jumbo support,
these controllers have one send ring, one standard receive producer
ring and one receive return ring. In order to receive jumbo frames
on the controllers, driver now will increase Rx buffer size to 9k.
Two Rx modes are supported on these controllers and I chose
standard Rx BDs over extended Rx BDs. The extended Rx BD mode
allows up to 4 segmentations for each Rx BDs such that kernel does
not have to allocate large buffer of contiguous memory for
receiving. The extended Rx BD mode is already used on controllers
that have separate jumbo receive ring. However, using extended Rx
BDs on BCM5714/BCM5715/BCM5780 reduces the number of Rx BDs to 256
entries which in turn may reduce the performance. Also UMA backed
page allocator for jumbo frame returns contiguous memory so using
extended Rx BD has no advantage on FreeBSD unless highly customized
local allocator implemented in driver is used.
To use jumbo buffers in standard receive ring, Rx buffer allocation
handler was changed to allocate MJUM9BYTES sized mbuf.
PR: kern/155192
Tested by: Vijay Singh <vijju.singh <> gmail dot com>
Submitted by: mjacob (initial version)
the dual port BCM5717 and BCM5718 devices which are intended for
mainstream workstation and entry-level server designs and
represents the twelfth generation of NetXtreme Ethernet controllers.
This family is the successor to the BCM5714/BCM5715 family and
supports IPv4/IPv6 checksum offloading, TSO, VLAN hardware tagging,
jumbo frames, MSI/MSIX, IOV, RSS and TSS.
This change set supports all hardware features except IOV and
RSS/TSS. Unlike its predecessors, only extended RX buffer
descriptors can be posted to the jumbo producer ring. Single RX
buffer descriptors for jumbo frame are not supported. RSS requires
a more substantial set of changes and will apply to a larger set
of NetXtreme devices so RSS/TSS multi-queue support will be
implemented in a future releases.
Special thanks to Broadcom who kindly sent a sample board to me
and to davidch who gave provided the initial support code.
Submitted by: davidch (initial version)
HW donated by: Broadcom
to BCM6906 A0/A2. This should fix a long standing BCM5906 A2 lockup
issues. Data sheet explicitly mentions BCM5906 A0, A1 and A2 use
de-pipelined mode on these revisions.
Special thanks to Buganini who tried all combinations of
experimental patches for more than 10 days.
Tested by: Buganini <buganini <> gmail dot com >
auto-negotiation results in half-duplex operation, excess collision
on the ethernet link may cause internal chip delays that may result
in subsequent valid frames being dropped due to insufficient
receive buffer resources. The workaround is to choose de-pipeline
method as a flow control decision for SDI. De-pipeline method
allows only 1 data in TxMbuf at a time such that a request to RDMA
from SDI is made only when TxMbuf is empty. Thanks for david for
providing detailed errata information.
receive two back-to-back send BDs with less than or equal to 8
total bytes then the device may hang. The two back-to-back send
BDs must be in the same frame for this failure to occur.
Thanks to davidch for detailed errata information.
Reviewed by: davidch
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
BGE_MI_MODE register accesses. Previously bge(4) used to read
BGE_MI_MODE register to detect whether it needs to disable
autopolling feature or not. Because we don't touch autopolling in
other part of driver there is no reason to read BGE_MI_MODE
register given that we know default value in advance. In order to
achieve the goal, check whether the controller has CPMU(Central
Power Mangement Unit) capability. If controller has CPMU feature,
use 500KHz MII management interface(mdio/mdc) frequency regardless
core clock frequency. Otherwise use default MII clock. While I'm
here, add CPMU register definition.
In bge_miibus_readreg(), rearrange code a bit and remove goto
statement. In bge_miibus_writereg(), make sure to restore
autopolling even if MII write failed. The delay time inserted after
accessing BGE_MI_MODE register increased from 40us to 80us.
The default PHY address is now stored in softc. All PHYs supported
by bge(4) currently uses PHY address 1 but it will be changed when
we add newer controllers. This change will make it easier to change
default PHY address depending on PHY models.
Submitted by: davidch
controllers. bge(4) exported MAC statistics on controllers that
maintain the statistics in the NIC's internal memory. Newer
controllers require register access to fetch these values. These
counters provide useful information to diagnose driver issues.
has reached. This reduced number of dropped frames when
flow-control is enabled. Previously it dropped incoming frames once
RX MBUF low watermark has reached. The value used in MAC RX MBUF
low watermark is greater than or equal to 4 so receiving two more
RX frames should not be a problem.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
tag. All controllers that are not BCM5755 or higher have 4GB
boundary DMA bug. Previously bge(4) used 32bit DMA address to
workaround the bug(r199670). However this caused the use of bounce
buffers such that it resulted in poor performance for systems which
have more than 4GB memory. Because bus_dma(9) honors boundary
restriction requirement of DMA tag for dynamic buffers, having a
separate TX/RX mbuf DMA tag will greatly reduce the possibility of
using bounce buffers. For DMA buffers allocated with
bus_dmamem_alloc(9), now bge(4) explicitly checks whether the
requested memory region crossed the boundary or not.
With this change, only the DMA buffer that crossed the boundary
will use 32bit DMA address. Other DMA buffers are not affected as
separate DMA tag is created for each DMA buffer.
Even if 32bit DMA address space is used for a buffer, the chance to
use bounce buffer is still very low as the size of buffer is small.
This change should eliminate most usage of bounce buffers on
systems that have more than 4GB memory.
More correct fix would be teaching bus_dma(9) to honor boundary
restriction for buffers created with bus_dmamem_alloc(9) but it
seems that is not easy.
While I'm here cleanup bge_dma_map_addr() and remove unnecessary
member variables in bge_dmamap_arg structure.
Tested by: marcel
datagrams with checksum value 0 when TX UDP checksum offloading is
enabled. Generating UDP checksum value 0 is RFC 768 violation.
Even though the probability of generating such UDP datagrams is
low, I don't want to see FreeBSD boxes to inject such datagrams
into network so disable UDP checksum offloading by default. Users
still override this behavior by setting a sysctl variable or loader
tunable, dev.bge.%d.forced_udpcsum.
I have no idea why this issue was not reported so far given that
bge(4) is one of the most commonly used controller on high-end
server class systems. Thanks to andre@ who passed the PR to me.
PR: kern/104826
buffers it should also reinitialize RX descriptors otherwise some
stale data could be passed to controller. This could end up with
mbuf double free or unexpected NULL pointer dereference in upper
stack. To fix the issue, save loaded buffer's length and
reinitialize RX descriptors with the saved value whenever bge(4)
reuses the loaded RX buffers.
While I'm here, increase the number of RX buffers to 512 from 256.
This simplifies RX buffer handling as well as giving more RX
buffers. Controller supports just fixed number of RX buffers
(i.e. 512) and bge(4) used to rely on hope that our CPU is fast
enough to keep up with the controller. With this change, bge(4)
will use 1MB for RX buffers but I don't think it would cause
problems in these days.
Reported by: marcel
Tested by: marcel
over GMII, make sure to enable GMII. With this change brgphy(4) is
used to handle the dual mode PHY. Since we still don't have a sane
way to pass PHY specific information to mii(4) layer special
handling is needed in brgphy(4) to determine which mode of PHY was
configured in parent interface.
This change make BCM5715S work.
Tested by: olli
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 week
o Don't enable BGE_FLAG_BER_BUG on both 5722 and 5756, and based
on their PCI IDs rather than their chip IDs.
Reported by: several PC-BSD users via kmoore
Reviewed by: yongari, imp, jhb, davidch
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
hw.bge.forced_collapse. hw.bge.forced_collapse affects all bge(4)
controllers on system which may not desirable behavior of the
sysctl node. Also allow the sysctl node could be modified at any
time.
Reviewed by: bde (initial version)
seem to require a special firmware to use TSO. But the firmware is
not available to FreeBSD and Linux claims that the TSO performed by
the firmware is slower than hardware based TSO. Moreover the
firmware based TSO has one known bug which can't handle TSO if
ethernet header + IP/TCP header is greater than 80 bytes. The
workaround for the TSO bug exist but it seems it's too expensive
than not using TSO at all. Some hardwares also have the TSO bug so
limit the TSO to the controllers that are not affected TSO issues
(e.g. 5755 or higher).
While I'm here set VLAN tag bit to all descriptors that belengs to
a frame instead of the first descriptor of a frame. The datasheet
is not clear how to handle VLAN tag bit but it worked either way in
my testing. This makes it simplify TSO configuration a little bit.
Big thanks to davidch@ who sent me detailed TSO information.
Without this I was not able to implement it.
Tested by: current
have a DMA bug when buffer address crosses a multiple of the 4GB
boundary(e.g. 4GB, 8GB, 12GB etc). Limit DMA address to be within
4GB address for these controllers. The second DMA bug limits DMA
address to be within 40bit address space. This bug applies to
BCM5714 and BCM5715 and 5708(bce(4) controller). This is not
actually a MAC controller bug but an issue with the embedded PCIe
to PCI-X bridge in the device. So for BCM5714/BCM5715 controllers
also limit the DMA address to be within 40bit address space.
Special thanks to davidch@ who gave me detailed errata information.
I think this change will fix long standing bge(4) instability
issues on systems with more than 4GB memory.
Reviewed by: davidch
PCI flush to get correct status block update. Add an optimized
interrupt handler that is activated for MSI case. Actual interrupt
handling is done by taskqueue such that the handler does not
require driver lock for Rx path. The MSI capable bge(4) controllers
automatically disables further interrupt once it enters interrupt
state so we don't need PIO access to disable interrupt in interrupt
handler.
directly access them at fixed address. While I'm here don't touch
other bits of PCIe device control register except max payload size.
Reviewed by: marius
Introduce two spare dma maps for standard buffer and jumbo buffer
respectively. If loading a dma map failed reuse previously loaded
dma map. This should fix unloaded dma map is used in case of dma
map load failure. Also don't blindly unload dma map and defer
dma map sync and unloading operation until we know dma map for new
buffer is successfully loaded. This change saves unnecessary dma
load/unload operation. Previously bge(4) tried to reuse mbuf
with unloaded dma map which is really bad thing in bus_dma(9)
perspective.
While I'm here update if_iqdrops if we can't allocate Rx buffers.
and Rx DMA tag separately. Previously it used a common mbuf DMA tag
for both Tx and Rx path but Rx buffer(standard ring case) should
have a single DMA segment and maximum buffer size of the segment
should be less than or equal to MCLBYTES. This change also make it
possible to add TSO with minor changes.
BGE_PCI_PRODID_ASICREV register to store the chip identifier and its revision.
- Add new grouping macro for 7575+ chips (BGE_IS_5755_PLUS).
- Add IDs for Fujitsu-branded Broadcom adapters.
PR: kern/127587
Tested by: Thomas Quinot <thomas@quinot.org> (BCM7561 A0)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Obtained from: OpenBSD
quirk requiring it to be enabled even when using MSI. This makes
the latter work again after r189285.
- Remove a comment which no longer applies since r190194.
