Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:39:14 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell YukonII Status Update? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0606302139t71acf183w645985c467ef0435@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060630060956.GA51353@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <ef10de9a0606292053i31abe4e2na30ec0028b54da8e@mail.gmail.com> <20060630060956.GA51353@cdnetworks.co.kr>
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On 6/30/06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Marvell will give you the docs if you sign an NDA, I know it's stupid but I think it's the only way... unless we vote with the wallet... Who has PCI-Express gigabit NIC cards that meet the following criteria?: a) Supported by FreeBSD. b) Unencumbered documentation. c) Checksum offloading. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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