Feature #12772
Need support for bnxt(7D)
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Description
There are some servers, like newer Dell PowerEdge, which ship with a BCM57406 NIC, which are NetXtreme II under the hood.
I have tested this nic on FreeBSD, and it works fine with bnxt driver.
Same NIC on SmartOS and OmniOS is not recognised (at the moment).
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Updated by Priyadarshan G.D. 6 months ago
To be precise, FreeBSD 12.1 did not recognize BCM57406 at install time. Manually loading bnxt driver in /boot/loader.conf with:
if_bnxt_load="YES"
made it work fine.
Updated by Robert Mustacchi 6 months ago
Unfortunately the bnxe driver and the bnxt driver are actually rather different. This'll require a new driver. While I started a prototype of such a driver, I don't have access to that hardware anymore so it's mostly stalled.
Updated by Priyadarshan G.D. 6 months ago
Thank you for considering this. A possible new driver could also add two other nics, also offered with Dell PowerEdge: 57402 and 57404: https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/98/campaigns/broadcom-network-cards#campaignTabs-4
Updated by Robert Mustacchi 14 days ago
- Subject changed from Need support for BCM57406 in bnxe to Need support for bnxt(7D)
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