Re: Call for stge(4) testers

Jason THorpe did one for NetBSD.

I did one for Solaris. Nice chip. Too bad it wasn't more popular.

On 7/7/06, Christian Brueffer <brueffer_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:49:57PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:53:44AM +0000, Bill Paul wrote:
> >  > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0000, Csaba Henk wrote:
> >  > >  > On 2006-07-06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > >  > > What model/maker you've got(pciconf -lv output)?
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > stge0_at_pci0:11:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x545013f0 chip=0x102113f0 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00
> >  > >  >     vendor   = 'Sundance Technology Inc'
> >  > >  >     class    = network
> >  > >  >     subclass = ethernet
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > And this is what shows up in dmesg:
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: <Sundance TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xef000000-0xef0001ff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: phy read fail
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone last message repeated 31 times
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: miibus2: <MII bus> on stge0
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus2
> >  > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> >  > >  >
> >  > >
> >  > > Since your NIC has a Marvell PHY and shows many "phy read fail"
> >  > > message I have to investigate the root cause. I don't have
> >  > > TC9021 NIC with Marvell PHY. So I can't sure I can fix it.
> >  > >
> >  > > Does ifconfig(8) reports correct link speed/status?
> >  > > Does "phy read fail" message shows only at device attach time?
> >  >
> >  > FYI: I don't know if you have them or not, but a long time ago I
> >  > stashed away copies of the TC9020/TC9021 programming manuals. The
> >  > provenance of these parts is a little murky. I first learned of them
> >  > as being Sundance Technologies devices, but later I found references to
> >  > them belonging to a company called Tamarack M.I. Later still, a
> >  > company called ICplus ended up with them. ICplus eventually produced
> >  > a single chip device combining the TC902x MAC with an integrated PHY
> >  > (though I've yet to actually see a NIC that uses these anywhere).
> >  >
> >
> > ASUS NX1101 and some motherboards from ABIT have IC Plus GigE controller.
> >
> >  > Sundance and Tamarack seem to have disappeared, but ICplus is still
> >  > around (www.icplus.com.tw) and they still have the gigE MAC and PHY
> >  > manuals online. They deleted the original TC902x manuals from their site,
> >
> > Yes, the online manuals are useless.
> >
> >  > but I saved copies. :) I put all the manuals I have for these devices at
> >  > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Sundance along with the original ST201
> >  > manual. Note that I didn't have to sign any NDAs to get any of these.
> >  >
> >
> > Thank you very very much. I really appreciate it. I mailed to guys
> > working for IC Plus a couple of of times and they all requested to
> > sign NDAs so I gave up.
> >
> >  > In case you can't tell, the hardware API for the ST201 and the TC902x
> >  > is copied very closely from the 3Com 3c90xB/3c90xC devices.
> >  >
> >  > Anyway, I'm posting these in case they help with maintaining the driver
> >  > (or if anyone just wants to tinker around with the hardware). Share
> >  > and enjoy!
> >  >
> >  > -Bill
> >  >
> >
> > Thanks again. I hope I can solve JUMBO frame issues soon.
> >
>
> There is also a BSD licensed driver for FreeBSD 4.x written by Tamarack.
> No idea wheather or not it is still available, so I put it up for
> download:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/TC902X_FreeBSD.zip
>
> Maybe it can help in some way.
>
> - Christian
>
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