From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 21:25:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0A01065687 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [194.62.233.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061928FC08 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:25:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from sp34.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.107] helo=bs1.sp34.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KwkSC-000Jzp-Vv; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:25:49 +0300 Received: from bsam by bs1.sp34.ru with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KwkSC-0000MI-LW; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:25:48 +0300 To: Sven Aluoor References: <20081101234311.9bc42999.aluoor@gmail.com> <16517938@bs1.sp34.ru> <20081102074253.GA1822@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081102135627.2ff984ff.aluoor@gmail.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:25:48 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20081102135627.2ff984ff.aluoor@gmail.com> (Sven Aluoor's message of "Sun\, 2 Nov 2008 13\:56\:27 +0100") Message-ID: <61138835@bs1.sp34.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:25:51 -0000 Sven Aluoor writes: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:42:53 +0100 > Matthias Apitz 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