From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 02:48:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C08FE for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-la0-f42.google.com (mail-la0-f42.google.com [209.85.215.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0EC8FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id fe20so5439024lab.1 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:48:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=65ML6VVFe59MkZPUzAD8VRmskMQngACabYQzSg0RSPM=; b=JI6Ppo+SQthzfG6V/jTgeW+eF1l86kTclKCFHr/se5nFZIPy9ukg14B+fgiD1bNqch dhuTrO2Hx7yHdSyWyzRrUOEOOkCC4VPuNA/tpRx1cVkCvbQWnm00L/4vcHwmgK9SkPwX 4vsWP40Yl5QpbXt15esA6oTMqI8Xwz/Ne/7zU= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=65ML6VVFe59MkZPUzAD8VRmskMQngACabYQzSg0RSPM=; b=oO8Coj0LFrNzhz+3DY/FbT6dgwpMXfTOLvTgL9jIHN6JtBQMA4cBUXambAX9Z1LpLd PqvEzpwEMjnvCbpPNqA5FebYLHT7B45ZMQ9eOlhBW+0dzzbleWq3zWuCzsku7P99RJMu f6SS7nixcQOTeI2rw4jJm3Tj5PaG40YvdxONakz/w0owOEwBFOthWNMs1zil8h+o1XV/ ah919DhiIaDz7m7x5u1eMAUvuzlt/7oxsmF6+juzi5mRQTojT1d3uak4wu4T7IM/vpCm BbZyV2eWQ3yI/CU6rsz/FY1lypwUGgG1O2Qk5IiozK+DK22Upk5F8dxMfNjm6TyUYZ1Z 4ZrA== Received: by 10.152.114.65 with SMTP id je1mr43097656lab.33.1357094879892; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:47:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.87.102 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:47:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 21:47:29 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: supporting AR8161/8165 To: pyunyh@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlnph1DlLXq/HpzSLfl2T44I25pz7W1hocneXnX2e4hn0SfUkCAguFcVk14Ui8JUjlnc662 Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:48:02 -0000 On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Are there any plans to support the AR8161/8165 chipset? >> [ none2@pci=E2=80=A6 class=3D0x02000 card=3D0x397917aa chip=3D0x10911969= rev=3D0x08 hdr=3D0x00 ] >> > This decision made QAC to overhaul Linux driver > (alx) to follow Linux's decision and their priority was to get a > stable Linux driver. It was long time ago and I don't know current > status. :( > QAC already donated a couple of engineering samples so I guess it > wouldn't take a long time for me to write a driver for > AR816x/AR817x but I still have mixed feelings about writing a > driver at this moment. Why the mixed feelings? The more hardware we support out of the box the more likely it is that users will stick with FreeBSD. If I could tell people that "yes, this laptop completely works with FreeBSD" that would be awesome. --=20 Eitan Adler