Re: Call for Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet testers.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:37:11PM -0800, othermark wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > >Hi,
 > >
 > >I've written a driver for Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit
 > >Ethernet controller. It supports the following GigE adapters.
 > >o SysKonnect SK-9Sxx Yukon Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o SysKonnect SK-9Exx Yukon Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8021CU Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8021 SX/LX Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8022CU Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8022 SX/LX Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8061CU Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8061 SX/LX Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8062CU Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8062 SX/LX Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8035 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8036 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8038 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8050 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8052 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o Marvell Yukon 88E8055 Gigabit Ethernet
 > >o D-Link 560T Yukon Gigabit Ethernet
 > >
 > >Due to lack of documentation, this driver is based on the code from
 > >sk(4) and Marvell's myk(4) driver for FreeBSD 5.x/6.x. I've also
 > >adopted the OpenBSD interface name, msk(4) in order to reduce naming
 > >differences between BSDs.
 > >After many trial and errors I now managed to work it on i386 box. At
 > >the moment IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload for transmit and IP checksum
 > >offload for receive is supported. Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping
 > >is also supported. JUMBO frame support code is present but was not
 > >tested at all and it may have bugs.
 > >
 > >The driver was tested on on-board 88E8053 PCI Express NIC and I'd
 > >like to hear success/failure reports on other architectures such as
 > >amd64. I don't have adapters that have TBI transceivers or dual MAC
 > >configuration so I'd also like to know whether it works on those
 > >adapters too.
 > >
 > >** Be ware, this driver is not for production use. It may even damage
 > >your hardware. **
 > >
 > >You can get the latest msk(4) driver from the following URL.
 > >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.HEAD.diff
 > >
 > >You should add "device msk" in your kernel configuration file
 > >and rebuild/reboot or build kernel module if_msk.ko.
 > >You need latest CURRENT to apply this diff.
 > >
 > >TODO:
 > >Automatic crossover support(e1000phy(4)).
 > >Yukon FE(Fast Ethernet) support(e1000phy(4)).
 > >Performance tuning.
 > >Rx TCP/UDP checksum offload.
 > >TSO support.
 > >64bit DMA(DAC) support.
 > >
 > >Thanks.
 > 
 > I just tried your latest -HEAD patch for msk
 > 
 > uname:
 > FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 28 14:22:29 PST 2006 
 >     root:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HELLFIRE  i386
 > 
 > pciconf:
 > mskc0_at_pci2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81421043 chip=0x436211ab rev=0x15 
 > hdr=0x00
 >     vendor   = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
 >     device   = '88E8053 Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper)'
 >     class    = network
 >     subclass = ethernet
 > 
 > dmesg:
 > mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
 > 0xdeffc000-0xdeffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
 > START: try 11
 > msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Id 0xb6 Rev 0x01> on mskc0
 > msk0: Ethernet address: 00:11:2f:46:63:47
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0
 > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
 > e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 
 > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
 > mskc0: [FAST]
 > 
 > However during ifconfig, it gives an error.
 > 
 > Nov 28 16:00:16 kernel: msk0: link state changed to UP
 > Nov 28 16:00:51 kernel: mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error

I think you can ingore above error unless it continuously spits
the message.

 > Nov 28 16:00:51 kernel: msk0: link state changed to DOWN
 > Nov 28 16:00:54 kernel: msk0: link state changed to UP
 > 
 > I'm not whether it's working or not yet.  I wasn't clear if your 
 > e1000phy patch would tromp on the msk patch so I didn't try it.
 > 

Since I've tested msk(4) on 88E8053 it should work without any
problems. If it didn't work as expected please let me know.

BTW, I guess the patch which is now old does not contain required
e1000phy(4) changes. Regenerated patch again.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.HEAD.diff

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon