Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:25:48 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Sven Aluoor <aluoor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h Message-ID: <61138835@bs1.sp34.ru> In-Reply-To: <20081102135627.2ff984ff.aluoor@gmail.com> (Sven Aluoor's message of "Sun\, 2 Nov 2008 13\:56\:27 %2B0100") References: <20081101234311.9bc42999.aluoor@gmail.com> <16517938@bs1.sp34.ru> <20081102074253.GA1822@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081102135627.2ff984ff.aluoor@gmail.com>
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Sven Aluoor <aluoor@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:42:53 +0100 > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: >> El d=C3=ADa Sunday, November 02, 2008 a las 02:48:13AM +0300, Boris >> Samorodov escribi=C3=B3: >> > Seems that you may be interested at: >> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D343551+0+current/freebs= d-current > > Hi Boris > > This link reference to an empty document Hm, it seems to be changed: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D343551+0+archive/2008/freebs= d-current/20081102.freebsd-current Anyway here it is: ----- On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:48:45PM +0900, To freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org wr= ote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06:37PM +0900, To freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org= wrote: > > I had been working on writing a driver for Atheros AR8121(L1E), > > AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet controllers since Jeremy Chadwick sent > > the hardware to me. I think it's feature complete state and time > > for more testing for stability or some edge cases. I guess AR81xx > > is commonly found on newer Asus EeePC or P5Q series of Asus > > motherboard. If you have AR81xx controller would you give it spin > > and let me know how it goes? You can get the latest driver at the > > following URL. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_ate.c > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atereg.h > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atevar.h > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/Makefile > > or > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/ate.20081030.tar.gz > > The driver should build without problems on CURRENT, stable/7. > >=20 > > ATM the driver supports the following hardware features. > > - TSO > > - Rx TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload > > - VLAN tag insertion/stripping > > - Jumbo frame > > - WOL > > It seems that hardware supports Tx checksum offload but I couldn't > > make it work for TCP segments. Only short TCP segments seem to work > > so I disabled Tx checksum offload. > > Note, the hardware does not support descriptor based DMA on Rx side > > so driver have to copy recevied frames to pass them to upper stack > > so it will consume a lot of CPU cycles if you push the hardware to > > the limit. > >=20 >=20 > As bruffer pointed out the device name chosen conflicts with other > driver in tree so I renamed it to ale(4).The URL for the driver is > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile > or > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081030.tar.gz > Sorry for confusion. FYI: There was a typo that keep ale(4) from building on stable/7. It was fixed now and I reuploaded related files(URLs are the same as before). --=20 Regards, Pyun YongHyeon ----- WBR --=20 Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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