Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:29:08 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Solon Luigi Lutz <solon@pyro.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X1140a Gigabit Driver? Message-ID: <20060302152908.B76786@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <164311833.20060301174622@pyro.de>; from solon@pyro.de on Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:46:22PM %2B0100 References: <164311833.20060301174622@pyro.de>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:46:22PM +0100, Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: > Hello freebsd-sparc64, > > is there any driver for a SUN X1140a 1000BaseSX ethernet adapter > available? Either in the normal distribution or as some beta code > out in the wild? > Not as far as I can tell. In principle these should be supported by gem(4). What needs to be done to make them actually work is: - figure out the register layout (apparently it differs somewhat from the PCI variants) and add an SBus front-end, - add support for the SERDES, - make some performance improvements like adding support for checksum offloading and converting the TX side to use bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(9). Marius -- This mail was scanned by AntiVir Milter. This product is licensed for non-commercial use. See www.antivir.de for details.
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