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
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 ow
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Peter A Barlow
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 t
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
