[ipxe-devel] Issues with Broadcom NICs in Dell R7625

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:49:09PM +0000, Thomas Walker via ipxe-devel wrote:
>    ... happy ...       But I'm encontering 2 problems (on master from
> a couple of weeks back, 7147532c):
> 
> The 1G LOM is a Broadcom 5720, nearly identical to the previous
> generation server that works fine.  Both good and bad are vendor:dev
> 14e4:165f and subvendor 1028.  The older (working) system has a
> subdevice of 08ff whereas the newer (sort of working) one has a
> subdevice of 0a6b.
> 
> While ipxe does appear to "work" with this adapter, it prints:
> 
>    WARNING: Using legacy NIC wrapper on 79:79:79:79:79:79
> 
> Where that MAC obviously bears no relation
> to the actual MAC on the device.
> 
> This system also has an OCP slot fitted with a Broadcom 57414
> (vendor:device 14e4:16d7 and subvendor:subdevice 1407:4145) and manages
> to dhcp but not much more.  Enabling debugging (DEBUG=bnxt:2) shows
> that, when "Configuring", it starts spewing:
> 
>    assert(!iob) failed at drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt.c line 468
> 
> over and over until it finally fails and ipxe exits.  In fact, I had
> to compile bnxt out completely in order to boot the system
> off of the 1G LOM.
> 
> Any suggestions for either of these?

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Geert Stappers
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