From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 07:53:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D63116A41F for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:53:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A044043D62 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:53:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5D71FFACD; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:53:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 906081FFACA; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:53:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id BF8AE157EE; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3BB15329; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Jia-Shiun Li In-Reply-To: <1d6d20bc050703113864394536@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1d6d20bc050703113864394536@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Attempting to make sk(4) work on Marvell 88E5053 (advise needed) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:53:20 -0000 On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: Hi, > My (and probably many of yours) motherboard Asus P5GD1 PRO has Marvell > 88E5053 on board, but currently there is no working driver for it, so > I tried to modify sk(4) to make it work. > > I took a brief look at the syskonnect Linux driver v8.16, there seems > no much differences among PCI and PCI-express chips, so I tried to > fill missing identifiers to see if I am lucky enough. But the answer > is no. :p there are more differences than you'd expect. It's on TODO of some people to write the new driver but mostly ENOSPECS and ENOTIME problems. > Attached is my attempt, and the result message is below. Looks like > 300+ KB jumbo frame buffer is too much to allocate. That's another problem with more drivers. I guess it'll succeed if driver gets attached during boot. > It would be very > appreciated if any one can give some advises. poke Marvell for the _specs_ so we can write a BSD licensed driver. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048265.html -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT