From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 28 14:20:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D054D37B400; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020228222022.IMAB1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:20:22 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA07796; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:02:36 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Andre Oppermann Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Matthew N. Dodd" , "David O'Brien" , dirkx@covalent.net Subject: Re: Myson drivers for 4.x In-Reply-To: <3C7EA78A.8010800@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > 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. Here's what teh author said about the driver: -------start quite: [Julian said:] > Can you tell me if your driver was based upon an existing driver? > If so, which one? > We have the driver for FreeBSD 3.X. I modified it for FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X. Of course, when modified it for 4.X and 5.X. I refered the code of Intel and Realtek. > does the hardware resemble the hardware used by that driver? > how much? > what is different? Our chip is similar to Dec 21143. But they are different. We use the concept of "descriptor", too. > > > -- > Andre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message