Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:27:16 -0700 From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: building/porting linux SIS965L driver Message-ID: <001d01c5ba1a$bc83fdd0$0a00a8c0@rodan>
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I'm building (or trying to build) an amd64 FreeBSD machine to replace my FreeBSD 4.4 server. I purchased an ASUS Vintage-AE1 MB that uses the following chipsets: Northbridge: SiS760GX Southbridge: SiS965L I've not been able to get the on-board NIC to light up, so I purchased another NIC which works alright. It's bothering me too much that the chipset isn't supported (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html) but many of the other ASUS MB chipsets are. This seems like a great machine and I suspect there are plenty more machines that will be using this barebones box as a starting place (of course, I'll be wrong in a year anyways). I've found the linux driver for the on-board NIC and since I've never ported a driver for FreeBSD, I'm trying to figure out how much work it will be to port the driver to FreeBSD-6.0? I've snooped around in the /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sisreg.h 6.0Beta4 files to simply examine the bsd code. To my novice eyes, the files look completely different from the linux drivers and I'm not sure I can takle this myself since I've never done anything like this. Can someone help me through this process, or is this not worth the trouble? Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com
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