From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 20:16:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E48B16A47B for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djv@mbnet.fi) Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E2743D53 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:16:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djv@mbnet.fi) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (a88-112-145-105.elisa-laajakaista.fi [88.112.145.105]) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78387139525; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:16:34 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <454900A8.5080400@mbnet.fi> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:16:40 +0200 From: Tuomo Latto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <45480479.6090100@samsco.org> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903023623C5@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <4548FBCA.3090207@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4548FBCA.3090207@samsco.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 X-Rays: Do not expose this message to X-rays. X-Dictionary: Use it to look up more words starting with X. X-Been-There: Done That. Got the T-shirt. X-Spook: Hello to all my Fans in domestic surveillance X-Subliminal-Message: The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father. X-Jedi-Mindtrick: This isn't the email you are looking for X-Tyler-Durden-says: Make soap. X-Headers: It's what separates us from the animals. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0644-4, 10/31/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: Conrad Burger Subject: Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:16:40 -0000 Scott Long wrote: >>How hard would it be to use the linux driver code base to add tthe >>SerDes support to the FreeBSD driver? I am not a C programmer, but I >>can copy and paste ;) > > FreeBSD has the MII and PHY blocks abstracted out into separate drivers, > unlike linux. It's not clear to me how this may or may not affect > SerDes support. However, it's rarely possible to cut-n-paste this kind > of stuff from Linux due to how completely differently it is treated. ..and of course there's the thing about licensing, so that afterwards you'd probably be managing your own GPL'd fork of FreeBSD... -- Tuomo ... Schizophrenia beats being alone