Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:31:09 -0000 From: "Graham Bentley" <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <FC8C1834B2B14B89927E04AC34ACFB9E@main> References: <op.ujt418h2t4j7n6@3bsd.cpcnw.co.uk> <20081030123815.GA4568@icarus.home.lan>
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> You need to keep something in mind here: Marvell does not give out > documentation for their cards publicly, so Yong-Hyeon has to > reverse-engineer and "tinker" with what he already knows. Some hardware > feature do not work, others are buggy, others work fine on specific > revisions of the chip while later ones break. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate that people are working in the trenches on this stuff and thats great about FreeBSD. I only switched to the Marvel .ko as it was suggested on previous questions list, so didnt spend much time with the stock 7.0 driver. > And if you tell me "Well Linux has support for this chip!", I will throw > the following evidence back in your face: Marvell and other companies > are giving Linux developers development PCI cards to develop drivers > with (sometimes even before the card is out in the market), so Linux has > the upper hand here. They are not doing this with the BSDs. I guess even specs would be nice - hardware donations would be nicer though :) > I would urge you to go out and purchase an Intel Pro/1000 PT card Funnily enough, in the back of my mind I had the same thought upon seeing the words 'Marvell' amongst the mobo spec. Thats said at least they made an effort on supporting multi OS http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do even if they are a precious with their specs etc With some Vendors its Windos or nothing.
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