Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:09:56 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell YukonII Status Update? Message-ID: <20060630060956.GA51353@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0606292053i31abe4e2na30ec0028b54da8e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0606292053i31abe4e2na30ec0028b54da8e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Anyone know what's going on with YukonII support in FreeBSD, > specifically the Marvell chips used in PCI-Express add-on cards? > > Last I checked somebody was developing an experimental driver and > Marvell had just released the code to their FreeBSD 5.x/6.x driver: > mykbsd60x86-8.12.2.3.tar (bindary kmod package) > mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz (source code) > I don't know current status of the driver. ATM FreeBSD YukonII driver has stability issues and the driver needs big cleanups if we import the driver into src tree. But I wouldn't do the job and I'll spend my spare time to other thing. I know, from my previous experience(sk(4), stge(4)), how difficult to write a driver without a document and how hard to write a correct driver without knowing hardware internals. I'm sure there are many developers eager to write YukonII driver if they can access the hardware documentation. However I think there is no possibility that Marvell releases their chip documentations. > Has checksum offloading or the performance problems been fixed? Has > Marvell updated their driver? Is someone going to commit Marvell's > driver to -CURRENT? And what's happening with the experimental driver? > We need a working/stable driver first. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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