From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 25 00:45:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0A716A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DDB343D48 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:45:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q_dolan@yahoo.com.au) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.140?) (q?dolan@203.144.21.67 with plain) by smtp011.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Dec 2003 08:45:37 -0000 From: Q To: Matthew Dillon In-Reply-To: <200312250522.hBP5MRKN026375@apollo.backplane.com> References: <1072247645.2335.3.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> <200312250522.hBP5MRKN026375@apollo.backplane.com> Message-Id: <1072341926.2730.33.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:45:26 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a AMD64 nForce3 volunteer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:45:40 -0000 Thanks, I have known about this for a while, and after speaking with the author, have taken his suggestion to hang off porting this one for a little bit until they have sorted out a few issues. I plan to revisit this again over the next couple of weeks as I am currently on leave, but getting the Linux binary version working on the AMD64 nForce3 boards should be trivial as it varies very little from the i386 version, so I would like to get that working first. Seeya...Q On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 15:22, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I just found a linux written, GPL'd, reverse engineered nforce2 > ethernet driver in source form: > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-10/6502.html > > It might help. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > > :Hi, > : > :NVIDIA have just released their AMD64 version of the nForce drivers, and > :I am keen to add support for the onboard ethernet (MCP3) of this > :hardware to my existing nforce MCP driver (net/nvnet in ports). As I > :don't have access to one of these boards it's a bit hard to do right > :now. And Santa won't be bringing me one for christmas because he's an > :Intel man. ;) > : > :So I need a kind soul to volunteer some time and/or remote access to > :such a box, so I can modify my driver to work on this hardware. Very > :little is different between the i386 and AMD64 versions of the drivers > :so I (should) just need to sort out any 64bit related issues, get it to > :build and make sure that it works. Any and all assistance would be much > :appreciated. > : > :-- > :Seeya...Q