Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
On Tuesday 16 Oct 2012 18:20:16 Kevin Tran wrote: Attached are the patches that will fix issues where iPXE fails in 1Gbps mode when APE (management firmware) is disabled. Brandon and others have confirmed that these patches fixed their problems. Applied, with formatting fixes to keep git happy, thanks! http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/e27803e Sorry for the delay in getting around to this. Michael ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
On 10/18/12 22:23, Calvin Owens wrote: On 10/18/12 21:41, Brandon Penglase wrote: FYI to all, apparently Apple's Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter) uses the 57762 chip (PCI ID 14e4:1682). Looks like these patches also fixes an issue with that card. A person by the name of BoRiS came into the IRC channel reporting that this adapter with a Retina Macbook Pro, was not working (even on 100mbit). Once these patches were applied, it started working. Maybe this also is the fix for the other thread about the iMacs? Brandon Penglase I'll try Kevin's patches in our iMac lab tomorrow afternoon and let you know the result. Cheers, Calvin I have been rather forcefully informed I am no longer permitted to test software on my university's lab computers. Sorry... Cheers, Calvin Owens On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:20:16 + Kevin Tran kt...@broadcom.com wrote: Attached are the patches that will fix issues where iPXE fails in 1Gbps mode when APE (management firmware) is disabled. Brandon and others have confirmed that these patches fixed their problems. -Original Message- From: Kevin Tran Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:28 PM To: 'Brandon Penglase'; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Hi Brandon, We were able to reproduce the issue you reported on BCM5764m. We already resolved this. I will send you the fixes on other e-mail. Once you confirm that your issue is fixed, we will submit the changes. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Kevin, Thanks for getting back to us. It seems the only b57diag I've been able to find is from 2004 (or earlier). The download I'm finding on the website is for b57udiag, which doesn't seem to have the -b57eng option. When I use the one from 2004, I get Invalid device 0 requested. I don't believe there is any sort of management on this machine that would be involved. It's a Dell FX160, BIOS A07. It does have the ImageServer option, but it is not currently enabled. According to the b57udiag -dir it finds: 0 5764M:B0 02:00:0 Ex1 250 FEBF 10 128k/128k 00262d21e4ec 5764m-v3.35 W If it helps, I only have the problem when booting with a ipxe.usb thats been DD'd to a 2gb thumb drive. I haven't tried a CD yet, but using the built in UNDI to chainload to iPXE ends up working fine. I have used two different gigabit switches, the original was a 16port Linksys one, the current is a 8port Netgear GS108. Brandon Penglase ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
FYI to all, apparently Apple's Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter) uses the 57762 chip (PCI ID 14e4:1682). Looks like these patches also fixes an issue with that card. A person by the name of BoRiS came into the IRC channel reporting that this adapter with a Retina Macbook Pro, was not working (even on 100mbit). Once these patches were applied, it started working. Maybe this also is the fix for the other thread about the iMacs? Brandon Penglase On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:20:16 + Kevin Tran kt...@broadcom.com wrote: Attached are the patches that will fix issues where iPXE fails in 1Gbps mode when APE (management firmware) is disabled. Brandon and others have confirmed that these patches fixed their problems. -Original Message- From: Kevin Tran Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:28 PM To: 'Brandon Penglase'; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Hi Brandon, We were able to reproduce the issue you reported on BCM5764m. We already resolved this. I will send you the fixes on other e-mail. Once you confirm that your issue is fixed, we will submit the changes. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Kevin, Thanks for getting back to us. It seems the only b57diag I've been able to find is from 2004 (or earlier). The download I'm finding on the website is for b57udiag, which doesn't seem to have the -b57eng option. When I use the one from 2004, I get Invalid device 0 requested. I don't believe there is any sort of management on this machine that would be involved. It's a Dell FX160, BIOS A07. It does have the ImageServer option, but it is not currently enabled. According to the b57udiag -dir it finds: 0 5764M:B0 02:00:0 Ex1 250 FEBF 10 128k/128k 00262d21e4ec 5764m-v3.35 W If it helps, I only have the problem when booting with a ipxe.usb thats been DD'd to a 2gb thumb drive. I haven't tried a CD yet, but using the built in UNDI to chainload to iPXE ends up working fine. I have used two different gigabit switches, the original was a 16port Linksys one, the current is a 8port Netgear GS108. Brandon Penglase ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
On 10/18/12 21:41, Brandon Penglase wrote: FYI to all, apparently Apple's Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter) uses the 57762 chip (PCI ID 14e4:1682). Looks like these patches also fixes an issue with that card. A person by the name of BoRiS came into the IRC channel reporting that this adapter with a Retina Macbook Pro, was not working (even on 100mbit). Once these patches were applied, it started working. Maybe this also is the fix for the other thread about the iMacs? Brandon Penglase I'll try Kevin's patches in our iMac lab tomorrow afternoon and let you know the result. Cheers, Calvin On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:20:16 + Kevin Tran kt...@broadcom.com wrote: Attached are the patches that will fix issues where iPXE fails in 1Gbps mode when APE (management firmware) is disabled. Brandon and others have confirmed that these patches fixed their problems. -Original Message- From: Kevin Tran Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:28 PM To: 'Brandon Penglase'; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Hi Brandon, We were able to reproduce the issue you reported on BCM5764m. We already resolved this. I will send you the fixes on other e-mail. Once you confirm that your issue is fixed, we will submit the changes. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Kevin, Thanks for getting back to us. It seems the only b57diag I've been able to find is from 2004 (or earlier). The download I'm finding on the website is for b57udiag, which doesn't seem to have the -b57eng option. When I use the one from 2004, I get Invalid device 0 requested. I don't believe there is any sort of management on this machine that would be involved. It's a Dell FX160, BIOS A07. It does have the ImageServer option, but it is not currently enabled. According to the b57udiag -dir it finds: 0 5764M:B0 02:00:0 Ex1 250 FEBF 10 128k/128k 00262d21e4ec 5764m-v3.35 W If it helps, I only have the problem when booting with a ipxe.usb thats been DD'd to a 2gb thumb drive. I haven't tried a CD yet, but using the built in UNDI to chainload to iPXE ends up working fine. I have used two different gigabit switches, the original was a 16port Linksys one, the current is a 8port Netgear GS108. Brandon Penglase ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
Attached are the patches that will fix issues where iPXE fails in 1Gbps mode when APE (management firmware) is disabled. Brandon and others have confirmed that these patches fixed their problems. -Original Message- From: Kevin Tran Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:28 PM To: 'Brandon Penglase'; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Hi Brandon, We were able to reproduce the issue you reported on BCM5764m. We already resolved this. I will send you the fixes on other e-mail. Once you confirm that your issue is fixed, we will submit the changes. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Kevin, Thanks for getting back to us. It seems the only b57diag I've been able to find is from 2004 (or earlier). The download I'm finding on the website is for b57udiag, which doesn't seem to have the -b57eng option. When I use the one from 2004, I get Invalid device 0 requested. I don't believe there is any sort of management on this machine that would be involved. It's a Dell FX160, BIOS A07. It does have the ImageServer option, but it is not currently enabled. According to the b57udiag -dir it finds: 0 5764M:B0 02:00:0 Ex1 250 FEBF 10 128k/128k 00262d21e4ec 5764m-v3.35 W If it helps, I only have the problem when booting with a ipxe.usb thats been DD'd to a 2gb thumb drive. I haven't tried a CD yet, but using the built in UNDI to chainload to iPXE ends up working fine. I have used two different gigabit switches, the original was a 16port Linksys one, the current is a 8port Netgear GS108. Brandon Penglase --- Kevin Tran ktran at broadcom.com Tue Aug 21 23:49:47 BST 2012 Hi Brandon, I tested iPXE with BCM5764m and it works fine for me even with 1G port on the Dell 6224 switch. I didn't test out all possible device configurations yet. We mainly focused our testing on BCM5719 devices. Your problem might be due to the fact that management firmware is enabled on the your setup . I need to reproduce your problem in my environment and I need the configuration of your NIC. 1. Enter engineering mode B57diag -b57eng 2. log mycfg.txt 3. dev 4. dir 5. secfg 6. press enter a few times and then type cancel. 7. close All the configuration will be captured in the mycfg.txt. Send me the file mycfg.txt. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-ipxe at spaceservices.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:25 AM To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org Cc: Brendon Walsh; Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Should have added this one too: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001477.html , where we had actually worked on it in the IRC Channel. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 11:15, Brandon Penglase wrote: I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start of our semester. I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html . I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now). I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console output. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on gigabit interfaces. I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is the same as before this commit. Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide any data that may help with resolving this issue. Brendon ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
Hi Brandon, We were able to reproduce the issue you reported on BCM5764m. We already resolved this. I will send you the fixes on other e-mail. Once you confirm that your issue is fixed, we will submit the changes. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Kevin, Thanks for getting back to us. It seems the only b57diag I've been able to find is from 2004 (or earlier). The download I'm finding on the website is for b57udiag, which doesn't seem to have the -b57eng option. When I use the one from 2004, I get Invalid device 0 requested. I don't believe there is any sort of management on this machine that would be involved. It's a Dell FX160, BIOS A07. It does have the ImageServer option, but it is not currently enabled. According to the b57udiag -dir it finds: 0 5764M:B0 02:00:0 Ex1 250 FEBF 10 128k/128k 00262d21e4ec 5764m-v3.35 W If it helps, I only have the problem when booting with a ipxe.usb thats been DD'd to a 2gb thumb drive. I haven't tried a CD yet, but using the built in UNDI to chainload to iPXE ends up working fine. I have used two different gigabit switches, the original was a 16port Linksys one, the current is a 8port Netgear GS108. Brandon Penglase --- Kevin Tran ktran at broadcom.com Tue Aug 21 23:49:47 BST 2012 Hi Brandon, I tested iPXE with BCM5764m and it works fine for me even with 1G port on the Dell 6224 switch. I didn't test out all possible device configurations yet. We mainly focused our testing on BCM5719 devices. Your problem might be due to the fact that management firmware is enabled on the your setup . I need to reproduce your problem in my environment and I need the configuration of your NIC. 1. Enter engineering mode B57diag -b57eng 2. log mycfg.txt 3. dev 4. dir 5. secfg 6. press enter a few times and then type cancel. 7. close All the configuration will be captured in the mycfg.txt. Send me the file mycfg.txt. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-ipxe at spaceservices.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:25 AM To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org Cc: Brendon Walsh; Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Should have added this one too: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001477.html , where we had actually worked on it in the IRC Channel. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 11:15, Brandon Penglase wrote: I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start of our semester. I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html . I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now). I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console output. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on gigabit interfaces. I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is the same as before this commit. Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide any data that may help with resolving this issue. Brendon ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start of our semester. I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html . I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now). I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console output. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on gigabit interfaces. I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is the same as before this commit. Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide any data that may help with resolving this issue. Brendon ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
Should have added this one too: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001477.html , where we had actually worked on it in the IRC Channel. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 11:15, Brandon Penglase wrote: I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start of our semester. I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html . I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now). I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console output. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on gigabit interfaces. I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is the same as before this commit. Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide any data that may help with resolving this issue. Brendon ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit
Hi Brandon, I tested iPXE with BCM5764m and it works fine for me even with 1G port on the Dell 6224 switch. I didn't test out all possible device configurations yet. We mainly focused our testing on BCM5719 devices. Your problem might be due to the fact that management firmware is enabled on the your setup . I need to reproduce your problem in my environment and I need the configuration of your NIC. 1. Enter engineering mode B57diag -b57eng 2. log mycfg.txt 3. dev 4. dir 5. secfg 6. press enter a few times and then type cancel. 7. close All the configuration will be captured in the mycfg.txt. Send me the file mycfg.txt. Thanks! Kevin -Original Message- From: Brandon Penglase [mailto:bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:25 AM To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Cc: Brendon Walsh; Kevin Tran Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Recent tg3 driver commits still fail on gigabit Should have added this one too: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001477.html , where we had actually worked on it in the IRC Channel. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 11:15, Brandon Penglase wrote: I noticed this, this morning as well. I plan to do some debugging this afternoon, once I get some other issues out of the way from the start of our semester. I'm not sure if Kevin has seen the previous post or not, but it's here: http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-May/001461.html . I do want to thank the guys/gals at Broadcom who are putting an effort into this, as it does appear to have fixed a different issue we had (If you booted via USB, into a WinPE image, the WinPE image was not able to use the NIC. This appears to be working as expected now). I plan to do a DEBUG=tg3 build, so if more debugging, or another is requested, let me know and I can include that. The machine I have for testing does have a Serial output, so I can easily grab any console output. Brandon Penglase On 08/21/12 10:53, Brendon Walsh wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify everyone that the recent commit with fixes for the tg3 driver (a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa) have not made any noticeable difference in regards to functionality on gigabit interfaces. I am testing with BCM5764M and while iPXE will function properly on 100Mbit, it fails on DHCP still on a gigabit link. This behaviour is the same as before this commit. Thanks Kevin and all others who are working on this. I can provide any data that may help with resolving this issue. Brendon ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.orgmailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
