Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:01:57 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/le am7990.c am79900.c am79900reg.h am79900var.h am7990reg.h am7990var.h if_le_ledma.c if_le_pci.c lance.c lancereg.h lancevar.h Message-ID: <43DF7BE5.4050609@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200601311448.k0VEmwVF043100@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200601311448.k0VEmwVF043100@repoman.freebsd.org>
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Marius Strobl wrote: > marius 2006-01-31 14:48:58 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Added files: > sys/dev/le am7990.c am79900.c am79900reg.h > am79900var.h am7990reg.h am7990var.h > if_le_ledma.c if_le_pci.c lance.c > lancereg.h lancevar.h > Log: > Add le(4), a driver for AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs ported > from NetBSD. This driver actually can replace lnc(4). Advantages over > lnc(4) are: > - Cleaner and more flexible regarding MD needs. > - Endian-clean and MPSAFE. > - Supports ALTQ, VLAN_MTU, ifmedia. > - Uses 32bit DMA for the PCI variants. > > This commit includes front-ends for the dma(4) pseudo-bus found on SBus- > based sparc64 machines (thus supports the on-board LANCE in Sun Ultra 1) > and PCI. In order to actually replace lnc(4), the front-ends for ISA and > the PC98 CBUS would have to be added but for which I don't have hardware > to test. > > Reviewed and some improvements by: yongari > Tested on: i386, sparc64 > Excellent job! One question, though. I believe that VMWare emulates Lance hardware. If your new le driver works on that, then I see no reason to not disable the lnc driver and enable the le driver by default. Scott
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