From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 01:26:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FBB18F; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 01:26:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f45.google.com (mail-pb0-f45.google.com [209.85.160.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A9B8FC08; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 01:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id mc8so7541722pbc.4 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:26:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=FHXbFH1wTyjAqP7zaEGTJkrCVtwNnnNmYFNbAW9N6TE=; b=Zg6RHP6Za63H9t4Z1EfLYX/46rAfwdwxLEZMOyGWxw4sB4IknlpOFfM2fFcUrNt8LX eipYvqO6HmlEE7rJs23+wTSW0SwPKyJkrWZSsQOeHJZEfr2XlVX7K6yP+94yxLcYz2Yy IF1OAXkpyR304WOnrjtkZJcSjbfKhJ5OjHeFIGBYybq2AjLHWbN7/ciBUa10pC3EB3Ka +EPC6gSew3bkul5VWqElBew8kxsZvsEfSqDV4D0a7dmegAsD/VgjH3xdc2oApUGyz326 QJaW/gUpHKSYEY/UJUBEofP7TqUqeH+IbYQp8oyNf0wiaW9Mpe8JLWqaOytL4ptJP/MW d8DQ== X-Received: by 10.68.138.137 with SMTP id qq9mr142059794pbb.74.1357089977675; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyunyh@gmail.com (lpe4.p59-icn.cdngp.net. [114.111.62.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a4sm28308859paw.21.2013.01.01.17.26.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by pyunyh@gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:26:05 +0900 From: YongHyeon PYUN Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:26:04 +0900 To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: supporting AR8161/8165 Message-ID: <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:26:23 -0000 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 ] > Don't know about AR8165 but your controller looks like AR8161 (L1F) Gigabit Ethernet. When I contacted QAC(Qualcomm Atheros Communications) to get an engineering board for AR8161/AR8162 I was told that QAC is working on unified driver for Linux/FreeBSD. It seems their plan was to release a Linux/FreeBSD driver that supports all AR81xx family. However it appears their endeavor was not successful and Linux wanted to pick up the new driver for L1F/L2F controllers only rather than replacing existing drivers with QAC's new one. 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. > -- > Eitan Adler >