Re: nfe(4) on nVidia CK804/MCP9: MSI/MSI-X supported?

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:22:31PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
 > Sorry,
 > lost the initial posting. Tried the nfe-related stuff for if_nfe posted 
 > by Pyun YongHyeon these days and this is the result of a verbose boot 
 > for my ASUS A8N32-SLI mainboard:
 > 
 > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce4 CK804 MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0x9480-0x9487 
 > mem 0xddcf6000-0xddcf6fff irq 22 at device 19.0 on pci0
 > nfe0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xddcf6000
 > miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0
 > nfe0: bpf attached
 > nfe0: Ethernet address:
 > nfe0: [MPSAFE]
 > nfe0: [FILTER]
 > 
 > mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
 > 0xddefc000-0xddefffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
 > mskc0: Reserved 0x4000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xddefc000
 > mskc0: MSI count : 2
 > mskc0: attempting to allocate 2 MSI vectors (2 supported)
 > mskc0: using IRQs 256-257 for MSI
 > mskc0: RAM buffer size : 48KB
 > mskc0: Port 0 : Rx Queue 32KB(0x00000000:0x00007fff)
 > mskc0: Port 0 : Tx Queue 16KB(0x00008000:0x0000bfff)
 > msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Id 0xb6 Rev 0x02> on mskc0
 > msk0: bpf attached
 > msk0: Ethernet address: 00:15:f2:a2:79:aa
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0
 > mskc0: [MPSAFE]
 > mskc0: [FILTER]
 > msk0: link state changed to UP
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > All right, is looks like MSI isn't supported by the onboard MCP9 NIC or 
 > the driver isn't supporting this NIC, but it seems the nfe() driver does 
 > support NICs based on MCP55-based boards/chipsets. What's up with the 
 > MCP9 NIC on CK804/nForce4 chipsets?
 > 

It seems that your nVidia NIC does not have MSI capability so the
nfe(4) driver fall back on traditional interrupt delivery mechanism.
However your Marvell NIC has MSI capability and msk(4) successfully
configured to use MSI.
"pciconf -lvc" will show you what capabilities are supported by the
hardware.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon