Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:32:49 +0900 From: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supporting AR8161/8165 Message-ID: <20130102043249.GA1453@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmvGaGqts7dN7Xsr_SJoLkDaT7csEv7_Qcs%2BqxtK6gHVg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxg=6EeaXBwj57xjHEs7mM20DV3uWWPxos2Mz-=bWjoBwVA@mail.gmail.com> <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <CAF6rxgmvGaGqts7dN7Xsr_SJoLkDaT7csEv7_Qcs%2BqxtK6gHVg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 09:47:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> Hey, > >> > >> Are there any plans to support the AR8161/8165 chipset? > >> [ none2@pci… class=0x02000 card=0x397917aa chip=0x10911969 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 ] > >> > > > This decision made QAC to overhaul Linux driver > > (alx) to follow Linux's decision and their priority was to get a > > stable Linux driver. It was long time ago and I don't know current > > status. > > :( > > > QAC already donated a couple of engineering samples so I guess it > > wouldn't take a long time for me to write a driver for > > AR816x/AR817x but I still have mixed feelings about writing a > > driver at this moment. > > Why the mixed feelings? The more hardware we support out of the box > the more likely it is that users will stick with FreeBSD. Having direct vendor support has huge benefit to FreeBSD community and the vendor used to express their willingness to support FreeBSD. I'm afraid the vendor loses interests on supporting FreeBSD if the vendor find a community maintained driver. > > If I could tell people that "yes, this laptop completely works with > FreeBSD" that would be awesome. > > -- > Eitan Adler >
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