From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 28 13:53:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2925B37B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 86980 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2002 21:51:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([62.48.0.47]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Feb 2002 21:51:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3C7EA78A.8010800@pipeline.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:56:26 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions AG User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Julian Elischer , David O'Brien , dirkx@covalent.net Subject: Re: Myson drivers for 4.x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: >> I have been speaking with the author. >> he is adding a BSD copyright. >> also he says we can KNFify (style(9)ify?) as it doesn't have to >> remain >> compatible with anything else. > > It might be nice if it could be folded into the driver it was copied from, > if thats still possible. > > If its actually a Realtek clone with a few differences it wouldn't make > sense to add a whole new driver to the system. Just a side note; the Realtek driver isn't entirely up to date. The chip has evolved quite a bit with it's current RTL8139C(L)+ revision and now can do things like descriptor-base buffer management (one of the major shortcomings of the first revisions and what wpaul was bitching about), VLAN tagging, checksum offloading and some other stuff. I haven't looked at the mys driver source but if that supports these new features (which probably make this new chip rev fly) it should be integrated also for if_rl. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message