Hi. Please try atphy.c rev. 1.28.
On 2020/03/06 3:27, Rocky Hotas wrote: > Hi Masanobu and sorry for the delay. I had issues (again) with the > mailserver. > > On mar 02 14:58, SAITOH Masanobu wrote: > >> Could you test with ukphy by removing atphy from your kernel? > > I did as you suggested, commenting the line > > atphy* at mii? phy ? # Attansic/Atheros PHYs > > in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC, recompiled and it works! > > Here you can find: > - new dmesg, https://pastebin.com/UyEqRFs7 > - new `ifconfig -a', https://pastebin.com/xHq2GZeJ > > For me it's ok this way. If there is something else that I can do, > please let me know. > > If instead it's ok for you too, could you please include this > modification in the kernel, so that -current and the next versions > already have it? > >> Thanks in advance. > > Thanks to you for the suggestion, > > Rocky > > > P.S.1 > > Some considerations/doubts: > > - Just out of curiosity, was it possible (as an alternative) to disable > `atphy' with `userconf disable atphy' in boot(8)? I tried it in a VM > with wm(4) NIC, which uses makphy(4): booting with `userconf disable > makphy', ukphy(4) has been used instead of makphy(4) (and it works). > > - nfe(4) lists several mii(4) drivers (hope that they can be called this > way): `ciphy', `icsphy', `makphy', `rlphy', but not `atphy'. So, I > wonder: why `atphy' was called? > > - I am not sure about this, but according to the motherboard manual > > > <https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2N-MX_SE_Plus/E3353_M2N-MX_SE_PLUS.zip> > > this NIC should also support 1 Gbps transmission, so I guess 1000baseTX, > but the dmesg lists only 10base* and 100base*. > > > P.S.2 > > If anyone is interested, the atphy(4) driver has been excluded from the > kernel as follows. I downloaded the NetBSD sources (kernel, tools, > ...) for NetBSD 9.0 release using the procedure in this Chapter: > > <http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-fetch.html> > > with `cvs checkout -r netbsd-9-0-RELEASE -P src'. > Then, as specified in > > <http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html> > > I considered the GENERIC kernel configuration file for my architecture > (amd64): > > /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC > > I copied it to a new file, MGENERIC and looked for `atphy' inside the > file. The only line with this name is the one mentioned above: > > atphy* at mii? phy ? # Attansic/Atheros PHYs > > I commented it, and then compiled the kernel using the new configuration > file: > > ./build.sh -j 3 -U tools kernel=MGENERIC > > (`-j' is related to the number of threads, it may be 50 % higher than the > number of cores, which in my case is 2). > > Then, I installed and used the new kernel as instructed in par. 32.6 of the > above chapter page. > > This same procedure can be followed to remove/tune any other feature in > the kernel configuration file (GENERIC, or any other in the directory). > -- ----------------------------------------------- SAITOH Masanobu (msai...@execsw.org msai...@netbsd.org)
