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31.Dd June 24, 2007
32.Dt BCE 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm bce
36.Nd "Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38To compile this driver into the kernel,
39place the following lines in your
40kernel configuration file:
41.Bd -ragged -offset indent
42.Cd "device miibus"
43.Cd "device bce"
44.Ed
45.Pp
46Alternatively, to load the driver as a
47module at boot time, place the following line in
48.Xr loader.conf 5 :
49.Bd -literal -offset indent
50if_bce_load="YES"
51.Ed
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, including the
56BCM5706 and BCM5708 Ethernet controllers.
57.Pp
58The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC)
59Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA),
60and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the
61same controller.
62The following features are supported in the
63.Nm
64driver under
65.Fx :
66.Pp
67.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
68.It
69IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
70.It
71Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
72.It
73VLAN tag stripping
74.It
75Interrupt coalescing
76.It
7710/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
78.It
7910/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
80.El
81.Pp
82The
83.Nm
84driver supports the following media types:
85.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
86.It Cm autoselect
87Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
88The user can manually override
89the autoselected mode by adding media options to
90.Xr rc.conf 5 .
91.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
92Set 10Mbps operation.
93The
94.Xr ifconfig 8
95.Cm mediaopt
96option can also be used to select either
97.Cm full-duplex
98or
99.Cm half-duplex
100modes.
101.It Cm 100baseTX
102Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
103The
104.Xr ifconfig 8
105.Cm mediaopt
106option can also be used to select either
107.Cm full-duplex
108or
109.Cm half-duplex
110modes.
111.It Cm 1000baseTX
112Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
113Only
114.Cm full-duplex
115mode is supported.
116.El
117.Pp
118The
119.Nm
120driver supports the following media options:
121.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
122.It Cm full-duplex
123Force full duplex operation.
124.It Cm half-duplex
125Force half duplex operation.
126.El
127.Pp
128For more information on configuring this device, see
129.Xr ifconfig 8 .
130.Sh HARDWARE
131The
132.Nm
133driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom NetXtreme II
134family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the
135following:
136.Pp
137.Bl -bullet -compact
138.It
139Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC
140.It
141Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC
142.It
143HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
144.It
145HP NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
146.El
147.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
148The following variables are available as both
149.Xr sysctl 8
150variables and
151.Xr loader 8
152tunables:
153.Bl -tag -width indent
154.It Va hw.bce.msi_enable
155Whether or not MSI support is enabled in the driver.
156The default value is 1.
157.El
158.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
159.Bl -diag
160.It "bce%d: PCI memory allocation failed!"
161The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
162.It "bce%d: PCI map interrupt failed!"
163The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
164.It "bce%d: Unsupported controller revision (%c%d)"
165The driver does not support the controller revision in use.
166.It "bce%d: Controller initialization failed!"
167The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
168.It "bce%d: NVRAM test failed!"
169The driver could not access the controller NVRAM correctly.
170.It "bce%d: DMA resource allocation failed!"
171The driver could not allocate DMA memory to setup the controllers
172host memory data structures.
173.It "bce%d: Interface allocation failed!"
174The driver could not create a network interface for the controller.
175.It "bce%d: PHY probe failed!"
176The driver could not access the PHY used by the controller.
177.It "bce%d: Failed to setup IRQ!"
178The driver could not initialize the IRQ handler.
179.It "bce%d: Error: PHY read timeout!"
180The driver could not read a PHY register before the timeout period expired.
181.It "bce%d: PHY write timeout!"
182The driver could not write to the PHY register because a timeout occurred.
183.It "bce%d: Timeout error reading NVRAM at offset 0x%08X!"
184The driver could not write to NVRAM because a timeout occurred.
185.It "bce%d: Unknown Flash NVRAM found!"
186The driver does not recognize the NVRAM device being used and therefore
187cannot access it correctly.
188.It "bce%d: Invalid NVRAM magic value!"
189The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
190.It "bce%d: Invalid Manufacturing Information NVRAM CRC!"
191The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
192.It "bce%d: Invalid Feature Configuration Information NVRAM CRC!"
193The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
194.It "bce%d: DMA mapping error!"
195The driver was unable to map memory into DMA addressable space required
196by the controller.
197.It "bce%d: Could not allocate parent DMA tag!"
198The driver could not allocate a PCI compatible DMA tag.
199.It "bce%d: Could not allocate status block DMA tag!"
200The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
201status block.
202.It "bce%d: Could not allocate status block DMA memory!"
203The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
204status block.
205.It "bce_d: Could not map status block DMA memory!"
206The driver could not map the status block memory into the controller's DMA
207address space.
208.It "bce%d: Could not allocate statistics block DMA tag!"
209The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
210statistics block.
211.It "bce%d: Could not allocate statistics block DMA memory!"
212The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
213statistics block.
214.It "bce%d: Could not map statistics block DMA memory!"
215The driver could not map the statistics block memory into the controller's DMA
216address space.
217.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX descriptor chain DMA tag!"
218The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
219TX chain.
220.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX descriptor chain DMA memory!
221The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
222TX chain.
223.It "bce%d: Could not map TX descriptor chain DMA memory!"
224The driver could not map the TX descriptor chain memory into the controller's DMA
225address space.
226.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX mbuf DMA tag!"
227The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
228TX mbuf memory.
229.It "bce%d: Unable to create TX mbuf DMA map!"
230The driver could not map the TX mbuf memory into the controller's DMA
231address space.
232.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX descriptor chain DMA tag!"
233The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
234RX chain.
235.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX descriptor chain "
236The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
237RX chain.
238.It "bce%d: Could not map RX descriptor chain DMA memory!"
239The driver could not map the RX descriptor chain memory into the controller's DMA
240address space.
241.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX mbuf DMA tag!"
242The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
243RX mbuf memory.
244.It "bce%d: Unable to create RX mbuf DMA map!"
245The driver could not map the RX mbuf memory into the controller's DMA
246address space.
247.It "bce%d: Firmware synchronization timeout!"
248The driver was not able to synchronize with the firmware running on the
249controller.
250The firmware may be stopped or hung.
251.It "bce%d: Invalid Ethernet address!"
252The driver was not able to read a valid Ethernet MAC address from NVRAM.
253.It "bce%d: Reset failed!"
254The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
255.It "bce%d: Byte swap is incorrect!"
256The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
257Contact the author
258with details of the CPU architecture and system chipset in use.
259.It "bce%d: Firmware did not complete initialization!"
260The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
261.It "bce%d: Bootcode not running!"
262The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
263.It "bce%d: Error mapping mbuf into RX chain!"
264The driver could not map a RX mbuf into DMA addressable memory.
265.It "bce%d: Error filling RX chain: rx_bd[0x%04X]!"
266The driver was unable to allocate enough mbufs to fill the RX chain
267during initialization.
268Try increasing the number of mbufs available in
269the system, increase system memory, or if using jumbo frames, make sure
270enough 9KB mbufs are available.
271.It "bce%d: Failed to allocate new mbuf, incoming frame dropped!"
272The driver was unable to allocate a new mbuf for the RX chain and reused
273the mbuf for the received frame, dropping the incoming frame in the process.
274Try increasing the number of mbufs available in the system or increase system
275memory.
276.It "bce%d: Controller reset failed!"
277A fatal initialization error has occurred.
278.It "bce%d: Controller initialization failed!"
279A fatal initialization error has occurred.
280.It "bce%d: Block initialization failed!"
281A fatal initialization error has occurred.
282.It "bce%d: Error mapping mbuf into TX chain!"
283The driver could not map a TX mbuf into DMA addressable memory.
284.It "bce%d: Error registering poll function!"
285The driver received an error while attempting to register the poll function.
286.It "bce%d: Changing VLAN_MTU not supported."
287Changing the VLAN MTU is not currently supported by the driver.
288.It "bce%d: Cannot change VLAN_HWTAGGING while management firmware (ASF/IPMI/UMP) is running!"
289Management firmware to support ASF/IPMI/UMP requires that VLAN
290tag stripping be enabled in the controller.
291.It "bce%d: Changing VLAN_HWTAGGING not supported!"
292Disabling VLAN tag stripping is not currently supported by the driver.
293.It "bce%d: Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting!"
294The device has stopped responding to the network, there is a problem
295with the cable connection, or a driver logic problem has occurred..
296.It "bce%d: Fatal attention detected: 0x%08X!"
297A controller hardware failure has occurred.
298If the problem continues replace the controller.
299.El
300.Sh SEE ALSO
301.Xr altq 4 ,
302.Xr arp 4 ,
303.Xr miibus 4 ,
304.Xr netintro 4 ,
305.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
306.Xr vlan 4 ,
307.Xr ifconfig 8
308.Sh HISTORY
309The
310.Nm
311device driver first appeared in
312.Fx 6.1 .
313.Sh AUTHORS
314The
315.Nm
316driver was written by
317.An David Christensen Aq davidch@broadcom.com .
318