[gPXE] [gPXE-devel] New tg3 driver - Call for testers

[Thomas Miletich]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Quinn Plattel <qiet72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have now finished my testing of your code.  It works but EMBEDDED_IMAGE
> support seems to be broken.
> Can you or anyone on the mailing list confirm this?

Hello Quinn,
I just pulled the code from the git repository and built an image with:

make bin/tg3_main.usb NO_WERROR=1 EMBEDDED_IMAGE=/boot/memtest86+.bin

I booted tg3_main.usb in qemu and 'imgstat' shows the embedded image.
It won't boot because gPXE's multiboot support isn't complete(linux
kernel format memtest binaries should work), but at least the image is
there. Checking the md5 sum of the embedded image reveals that the md5
sum is also correct.

What exactly is the behavior you're seeing / how did you determine
that EMBEDDED_IMAGE doesn't work?

Thomas

> br,
> Quinn
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> For my GSoC project I have been working on updating the tg3 driver for
>> Broadcom BCM57xx NICs.
>> The old driver was still from etherboot and severely out of date.
>> The new driver is based on the driver of a recent linux version and
>> supports 79 NIC variants, as opposed to the 31 supported variants of
>> the old driver.
>>
>> We don't have hardware to test the fiber PHY codepath, so no fiber
>> code is implemented in the current version. If you have fiber tg3 NICs
>> and would be interested in helping us test/implement this feature,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> This driver was tested with the following cards: BCM5788, BCM5789,
>> BCM57780, BCM5761.
>> There is a know bug that freezes the machine with mdc's test card, a
>> BCM5701 that we still have to sort out.
>>
>> If you're interested in testing the new driver, please let us know
>> which card you used and whether it worked or not.
>>
>> You can get images from a rom-o-matic installation from
>> http://etherboot.org/meteger/gpxe/contrib/rom-o-matic/
>>
>> The source can be fetched from
>> http://git.etherboot.org/people/meteger/gpxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/tg3
>> The branch tg3 contains the most recent driver code.
>>
>> If you experience any driver related issues, please enable the serial
>> console in
>> src/config/console.h, by changing "//#define       CONSOLE_SERIAL" to
>> "#define       CONSOLE_SERIAL".
>>
>> Then rebuild gPXE with the following options:
>> make bin/tg3_main.usb DEBUG=tg3_main:3,tg3_hw,tg3_phy
>>
>> and copy the serial output to http://pastebin.com or a similar site.
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback!
>> Thomas
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> --
> Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,
> Quinn Plattel