BCM5709S ethernet adapter driver.

[Bob McClure]

Greetings Driver Experts.

  I am trying to find out if anyone is working on adding driver support for
a Broadcom BCM5709S Ethernet adapter on FreeBSD.


I will have the opportunity to migrate some of my servers to IBM LS42 Blade
servers. I am told this is the only

adapter available, so selecting another interface at least at this point is
not an option.


Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for you assistance.


Bob McClure
_______________________________________________
freebsd-drivers@... mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-drivers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-drivers-unsubscribe@..."

[John Baldwin]

Bob McClure wrote:

> Greetings Driver Experts.
>
>   I am trying to find out if anyone is working on adding driver support for
> a Broadcom BCM5709S Ethernet adapter on FreeBSD.
>
>
> I will have the opportunity to migrate some of my servers to IBM LS42 Blade
> servers. I am told this is the only
>
> adapter available, so selecting another interface at least at this point is
> not an option.
>
>
> Any input will be greatly appreciated.

A patch was recently posted to the lists from the forums I believe and
marius@ was going to review it when he gets some time.  I believe the
patch was reported as working for both 7 and 8.  I think it was posted
to hackers@ IIRC.

--
John Baldwin
_______________________________________________
freebsd-drivers@... mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-drivers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-drivers-unsubscribe@..."

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <4AB49138.4090206@...>
            John Baldwin <jhb@...> writes:
: Bob McClure wrote:
: > Greetings Driver Experts.
: >
: >   I am trying to find out if anyone is working on adding driver support for
: > a Broadcom BCM5709S Ethernet adapter on FreeBSD.
: >
: >
: > I will have the opportunity to migrate some of my servers to IBM LS42 Blade
: > servers. I am told this is the only
: >
: > adapter available, so selecting another interface at least at this point is
: > not an option.
: >
: >
: > Any input will be greatly appreciated.
:
: A patch was recently posted to the lists from the forums I believe and
: marius@ was going to review it when he gets some time.  I believe the
: patch was reported as working for both 7 and 8.  I think it was posted
: to hackers@ IIRC.

Yes.  Sam and I have reviewed the patches as well, and there's
problems with them.  While they appear to work, they are frobbing bits
that shouldn't need to be frobbed relating to receiving beacons
(effectively putting the card into promiscuous mode, iirc), which will
have a performance problem.  This is why I've not just pushed the
patches into the tree...

Warner
_______________________________________________
freebsd-drivers@... mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-drivers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-drivers-unsubscribe@..."

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20090919.095624.-1408366588.imp@...>
            M. Warner Losh <imp@...> writes:
: In message: <4AB49138.4090206@...>
:             John Baldwin <jhb@...> writes:
: : Bob McClure wrote:
: : > Greetings Driver Experts.
: : >
: : >   I am trying to find out if anyone is working on adding driver support for
: : > a Broadcom BCM5709S Ethernet adapter on FreeBSD.
: : >
: : >
: : > I will have the opportunity to migrate some of my servers to IBM LS42 Blade
: : > servers. I am told this is the only
: : >
: : > adapter available, so selecting another interface at least at this point is
: : > not an option.
: : >
: : >
: : > Any input will be greatly appreciated.
: :
: : A patch was recently posted to the lists from the forums I believe and
: : marius@ was going to review it when he gets some time.  I believe the
: : patch was reported as working for both 7 and 8.  I think it was posted
: : to hackers@ IIRC.
:
: Yes.  Sam and I have reviewed the patches as well, and there's
: problems with them.  While they appear to work, they are frobbing bits
: that shouldn't need to be frobbed relating to receiving beacons
: (effectively putting the card into promiscuous mode, iirc), which will
: have a performance problem.  This is why I've not just pushed the
: patches into the tree...

Ooops, wrong thread about a BCM part.  Ignore what I just said.  It
applies to a wireless part.

Warner
_______________________________________________
freebsd-drivers@... mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-drivers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-drivers-unsubscribe@..."