RE: Need Help:: BCE Interface - back port SERDES support to STABLE

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Thank you for offering to help!

I have tried to test the BCE-SERDES on CURRENT, but it looks like there are
still some problems with the driver on CURRENT. The kernel panics when I try to
assign an IP to the interface. 

It's rather pointless to try and port the driver to STABLE when it doesn't work
on CURRENT. Will try to port the driver to STABLE when it works on CURRENT. 

Regards 
Conrad 


-----Original Message-----
From: LI Xin [mailto:delphij_at_delphij.net] 
Sent: 31 January 2007 06:36 PM
To: Conrad Burger
Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need Help:: BCE Interface - back port SERDES support to STABLE

Conrad Burger wrote:
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> Hi 
> 
> Could someone please help me to create a patch to back port the SERDES support
> that was recently added to the BCE driver in CURRENT to STABLE?
> 
> I have been waiting for SERDES support on STABLE for about 3 months and I'm
> getting rather desperate.
> 
> I am trying to back port it myself using diffs from BCE-STABLE and
BCE-CURRENT. 
> But with almost no C experience and even less writing drivers it's going to
take
> awhile.
> Currently my kernel panics during boot when it tries to attach/probe the
network
> interface. 
> 
> I would be much appreciated it if someone could help me.

I think you will need to backport some MII changes back too...  I do not
have actual bce w/SERDES hardware at hand so I think I can not provide
some useful help except backporting some code and test to see if it
broke my Dell 2950 crashbox :-(

Maybe you can provide some panic messages (backtraces if you can, of
course) so we can investigate further?  Note that it would be nice if
you could provide diff in unified format, which is usually preferred and
makes it easier to read.

Cheers,
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