Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:29:29 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk> Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, fmc@reanimators.org, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? Message-ID: <199808041729.KAA18553@tnt.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Aug 1998 11:54:30 BST." <199808021054.LAA00638@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Swindells wrote: >I haven't written a new driver, just made minor changes to the old one. > >The changes are: > > * Add probing support for the chip IDs for newer PCnet chips - 79c970A, > 79c971 and 79c972. > > * Add support for reading and writing the BCR registers. Not currently > used, but you need it to be able to add ifmedia support. > > * Modify pcnet_probe() to always return the chip type even if it is a > PCI device. The probe routines that call this now check for the > returned chip type when determining whether to attach it. > >Things not done: > > * No probe for 79c960A (PCnet-ISA II) > > * The chip ID for the 79c970 doesn't look right. It may be that the probe > for this only worked because there was no distinction between "Unknown" > and "PCI". > >I'll check into these two before doing a send-pr. If it's OK with you all, I'd just as soon take Robert's patches than work on getting my bogus ones to work. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll assume that's whats happening. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Faber faber@isi.edu USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber (310) 822-1511 x190 PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNcdE+Ib4eisfQ5rpAQGH9QP/bGyDhhotwwE/SD18iSkOIuV8keg1d53t IAZaWuNN0ULE5GYvkYPblBzFIZIp+cwpkvUGDwwF+pLK3MTOWgtluzb7dtGi5pNH MHix0bvtoqsjjX+r5Chzdzi9NYNt+CXR5ixDJ9wFojD6gH2RTZs5DGXdJLiaBV5H K12QD3uOe3U= =vKr7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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