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31.Dd December 2, 2008
32.Dt BCE 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm bce
36.Nd "Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716) 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, BCM5708, BCM5709 and BCM5716 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.
62.Pp
63The following features are supported in the
64.Nm
65driver under
66.Fx :
67.Pp
68.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
69.It
70IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
71.It
72Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
73.It
74VLAN tag stripping
75.It
76Interrupt coalescing
77.It
7810/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
79.It
8010/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
81.El
82.Pp
83The
84.Nm
85driver supports the following media types:
86.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
87.It Cm autoselect
88Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
89The user can manually override
90the autoselected mode by adding media options to
91.Xr rc.conf 5 .
92.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
93Set 10Mbps operation.
94The
95.Xr ifconfig 8
96.Cm mediaopt
97option can also be used to select either
98.Cm full-duplex
99or
100.Cm half-duplex
101modes.
102.It Cm 100baseTX
103Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
104The
105.Xr ifconfig 8
106.Cm mediaopt
107option can also be used to select either
108.Cm full-duplex
109or
110.Cm half-duplex
111modes.
112.It Cm 1000baseTX
113Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
114Only
115.Cm full-duplex
116mode is supported.
117.El
118.Pp
119The
120.Nm
121driver supports the following media options:
122.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
123.It Cm full-duplex
124Force full duplex operation.
125.It Cm half-duplex
126Force half duplex operation.
127.El
128.Pp
129For more information on configuring this device, see
130.Xr ifconfig 8 .
131.Sh HARDWARE
132The
133.Nm
134driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom NetXtreme II
135family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the
136following:
137.Pp
138.Bl -bullet -compact
139.It
140Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-SX
141.It
142Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T
143.It
144Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX
145.It
146Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T
147.It
148Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX
149.It
150Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
151.It
152Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T
153.It
154Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC
155.It
156Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC
157.It
158HP NC370F Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
159.It
160HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
161.It
162HP NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
163.El
164.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
165The following variables are available as both
166.Xr sysctl 8
167variables and
168.Xr loader 8
169tunables:
170.Bl -tag -width indent
171.It Va hw.bce.msi_enable
172Whether or not MSI support is enabled in the driver.
173The default value is 1.
174.El
175.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
176.Bl -diag
177.It "bce%d: PCI memory allocation failed!"
178The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
179.It "bce%d: PCI map interrupt failed!"
180The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
181.It "bce%d: Unsupported controller revision (%c%d)"
182The driver does not support the controller revision in use.
183.It "bce%d: Controller initialization failed!"
184The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
185.It "bce%d: NVRAM test failed!"
186The driver could not access the controller NVRAM correctly.
187.It "bce%d: DMA resource allocation failed!"
188The driver could not allocate DMA memory to setup the controllers
189host memory data structures.
190.It "bce%d: Interface allocation failed!"
191The driver could not create a network interface for the controller.
192.It "bce%d: PHY probe failed!"
193The driver could not access the PHY used by the controller.
194.It "bce%d: Failed to setup IRQ!"
195The driver could not initialize the IRQ handler.
196.It "bce%d: Error: PHY read timeout!"
197The driver could not read a PHY register before the timeout period expired.
198.It "bce%d: PHY write timeout!"
199The driver could not write to the PHY register because a timeout occurred.
200.It "bce%d: Timeout error reading NVRAM at offset 0x%08X!"
201The driver could not write to NVRAM because a timeout occurred.
202.It "bce%d: Unknown Flash NVRAM found!"
203The driver does not recognize the NVRAM device being used and therefore
204cannot access it correctly.
205.It "bce%d: Invalid NVRAM magic value!"
206The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
207.It "bce%d: Invalid Manufacturing Information NVRAM CRC!"
208The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
209.It "bce%d: Invalid Feature Configuration Information NVRAM CRC!"
210The driver cannot read NVRAM or the NVRAM is corrupt.
211.It "bce%d: DMA mapping error!"
212The driver was unable to map memory into DMA addressable space required
213by the controller.
214.It "bce%d: Could not allocate parent DMA tag!"
215The driver could not allocate a PCI compatible DMA tag.
216.It "bce%d: Could not allocate status block DMA tag!"
217The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
218status block.
219.It "bce%d: Could not allocate status block DMA memory!"
220The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
221status block.
222.It "bce_d: Could not map status block DMA memory!"
223The driver could not map the status block memory into the controller's DMA
224address space.
225.It "bce%d: Could not allocate statistics block DMA tag!"
226The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
227statistics block.
228.It "bce%d: Could not allocate statistics block DMA memory!"
229The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
230statistics block.
231.It "bce%d: Could not map statistics block DMA memory!"
232The driver could not map the statistics block memory into the controller's DMA
233address space.
234.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX descriptor chain DMA tag!"
235The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
236TX chain.
237.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX descriptor chain DMA memory!
238The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
239TX chain.
240.It "bce%d: Could not map TX descriptor chain DMA memory!"
241The driver could not map the TX descriptor chain memory into the controller's DMA
242address space.
243.It "bce%d: Could not allocate TX mbuf DMA tag!"
244The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
245TX mbuf memory.
246.It "bce%d: Unable to create TX mbuf DMA map!"
247The driver could not map the TX mbuf memory into the controller's DMA
248address space.
249.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX descriptor chain DMA tag!"
250The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
251RX chain.
252.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX descriptor chain "
253The driver could not allocate DMA addressable memory for the controller's
254RX chain.
255.It "bce%d: Could not map RX descriptor chain DMA memory!"
256The driver could not map the RX descriptor chain memory into the controller's DMA
257address space.
258.It "bce%d: Could not allocate RX mbuf DMA tag!"
259The driver could not allocate a DMA tag for the controller's
260RX mbuf memory.
261.It "bce%d: Unable to create RX mbuf DMA map!"
262The driver could not map the RX mbuf memory into the controller's DMA
263address space.
264.It "bce%d: Firmware synchronization timeout!"
265The driver was not able to synchronize with the firmware running on the
266controller.
267The firmware may be stopped or hung.
268.It "bce%d: Invalid Ethernet address!"
269The driver was not able to read a valid Ethernet MAC address from NVRAM.
270.It "bce%d: Reset failed!"
271The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
272.It "bce%d: Byte swap is incorrect!"
273The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
274Contact the author
275with details of the CPU architecture and system chipset in use.
276.It "bce%d: Firmware did not complete initialization!"
277The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
278.It "bce%d: Bootcode not running!"
279The driver has encountered a fatal initialization error.
280.It "bce%d: Error mapping mbuf into RX chain!"
281The driver could not map a RX mbuf into DMA addressable memory.
282.It "bce%d: Error filling RX chain: rx_bd[0x%04X]!"
283The driver was unable to allocate enough mbufs to fill the RX chain
284during initialization.
285Try increasing the number of mbufs available in
286the system, increase system memory, or if using jumbo frames, make sure
287enough 9KB mbufs are available.
288.It "bce%d: Failed to allocate new mbuf, incoming frame dropped!"
289The driver was unable to allocate a new mbuf for the RX chain and reused
290the mbuf for the received frame, dropping the incoming frame in the process.
291Try increasing the number of mbufs available in the system or increase system
292memory.
293.It "bce%d: Controller reset failed!"
294A fatal initialization error has occurred.
295.It "bce%d: Controller initialization failed!"
296A fatal initialization error has occurred.
297.It "bce%d: Block initialization failed!"
298A fatal initialization error has occurred.
299.It "bce%d: Error mapping mbuf into TX chain!"
300The driver could not map a TX mbuf into DMA addressable memory.
301.It "bce%d: Error registering poll function!"
302The driver received an error while attempting to register the poll function.
303.It "bce%d: Changing VLAN_MTU not supported."
304Changing the VLAN MTU is not currently supported by the driver.
305.It "bce%d: Cannot change VLAN_HWTAGGING while management firmware (ASF/IPMI/UMP) is running!"
306Management firmware to support ASF/IPMI/UMP requires that VLAN
307tag stripping be enabled in the controller.
308.It "bce%d: Changing VLAN_HWTAGGING not supported!"
309Disabling VLAN tag stripping is not currently supported by the driver.
310.It "bce%d: Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting!"
311The device has stopped responding to the network, there is a problem
312with the cable connection, or a driver logic problem has occurred..
313.It "bce%d: Fatal attention detected: 0x%08X!"
314A controller hardware failure has occurred.
315If the problem continues replace the controller.
316.El
317.Sh SEE ALSO
318.Xr altq 4 ,
319.Xr arp 4 ,
320.Xr miibus 4 ,
321.Xr netintro 4 ,
322.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
323.Xr vlan 4 ,
324.Xr ifconfig 8
325.Sh HISTORY
326The
327.Nm
328device driver first appeared in
329.Fx 6.1 .
330.Sh AUTHORS
331The
332.Nm
333driver was written by
334.An David Christensen Aq davidch@broadcom.com .
335