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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:45:39 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Marvell Yukon 2 88E8040
Message-ID:  <4851DF53.4080807@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4851C732.9080909@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:07:56PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>  > Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>  > >On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > >>I saw a Marvell Yukon 2 88E8040 driver at
>>  > >>http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch
>>
>> I guess patch above wouldn't apply cleanly due to changes in
>> msk(4).
>>
>>  > >>but the patch doesn't apply cleanly.
>>  > >>
>>  > >>Are people considering putting it into FreeBSD 8x or FreeBSD 7x 
>> anytime
>>  > >>soon?
>>  > >
>>
>> Yes, I'd like to but had no testers so far. (I'm still waiting for
>> feedback from a first tester.)
>> Because I don't have 88E8040 hardware I need help from users to
>> write a working patch. What make me hard for this hardware was it
>> used slightly different descriptor format and added additional new
>> silicon bugs.
>>
>> I'll update the patch in a couple of days and let you know.
> 
> Thanks.  And I'll test it for you.

I've got a Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller in my 
current workstation (Windows).

If this device qualifies under the work of any patches, let me know and 
I'll try them out.

Steve


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