Hello Peter,
Sorry to dig up the old thread, not sure about the mailing list
rules/etiquette on old threads.
I'm looking to get a silicom i3000 up and running with FreeBSD
(Opnsense). It has similar specs to the M270 with two X553 cpu ports and
a Marvell 88E6190X switch. I found this thread and tried the patches in
that you've linked to and also added the patch for the
ixgbe_[write|read]_phy_reg_mdi_22, however I'm still not getting a
/dev/mdio device. Did you make any progress on this one? Do you have any
suggestions?
At-least one user was able to get pf+ on it and /dev/mdio did appear.
Thanks,
Jason Hensler
On 12/16/23 4:57 AM, Peter A Barlow wrote:
Hi Eric,
Thank you. I’ve spent a few days researching this quite extensively.
I’m aware of this. It seems that some mods have been incorporated into
pf+ (closed source) probably in the ixgbe drivers to facilitate the
MDIO bus and detection of the Marvell switch. However, like some other
M270 owners, I don’t wish to invest in pf+ and would like to figure
out just how much work is involved in modifying the drivers to work
with the M270 unit under FreeBSD, or OPNsense.
Yesterday I stumbled upon Intel’s DPDK project. If you look at their
mail archive you’ll find a number of mods to the X550 driver to
address this issue. I’m currently looking at this for clues.
[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/ixgbe : backplane port MDIO support
<https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html>
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Peter
On 15 Dec 2023, at 18:56, Eric Joyner <e...@freebsd.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Peter A Barlow
<peterbarlow2...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’m looking at running FreeBSD on an old Firebox M270.
It has a C3558 CPU with integrated X553 LAN controller which
connects over MDIO to a Marvell 88E6190 switch.
Out of the box the X553 backplane is detected but there doesn’t
seem to be any attempt at probing the MDIO for connected devices.
I’ve played around with the Intel ixgbe drivers, compiling the
kernel etc to see if I can figure it out but I’m really
struggling to understand what needs to be done.
At this stage I’m reaching out to the community to see if anyone
can clarify something for me….are there some fundamental changes
or additions required to the drivers to make this work, or is it
something that should work already but needs some options
enabling or configurations tweaking. I’m reluctant to put more
time into trawling through the code if it’s a ‘simple’
configuration issue.
Any pointers would be very welcome.
Thank you.
I found this thread:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154974/pfsense-on-watchguard-m270/112
I think the TL;DR is that you need pfSense Plus since the required
software to get it to work isn't publicly available.
- Eric
