Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:33:13 +0900 (JST) From: HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp> To: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for 3c905B driver Message-ID: <199807290933.SAA14287@stone.astec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm,Ax(Brgrav's message of "29 Jul 1998 10:54:05 %2B0200" <rx4r9z5yr4i.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> References: <199807282035.QAA27573@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <rx4r9z5yr4i.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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DES <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> writes: >Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> writes: >> Note that the vortex driver (if_vx.c) already supports the 3c900 and >> original 3c905 cards, but it uses PIO to transfer packets to and from >> the NIC's RAM. My driver uses bus master DMA instead. If you want to >> use my driver instead of the vortex driver for the 3c900 and 3c905 >> cards, you should edit /sys/pci/if_vx_pci.c and comment out the >> portion of vx_pci_probe() that checks the PCI device IDs for the >> Etherlink XL cards, otherwise the vortex driver may be assigned to >> them instead of mine. >What's wrong with just leaving it out of the kernel? If you simply get rid of the vx driver, support for 3C59[0257] drivers is lost. Only its probe code for 3C90[05] must be omitted from the vx driver. - nao To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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