From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 00:29:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B312C16A4D0 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.pair.com (relay01.pair.com [209.68.5.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C25543D90 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:29:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 13354 invoked from network); 17 May 2005 00:28:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 17 May 2005 00:28:58 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:28:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: stefan@aeschbacher.ch In-Reply-To: <1116286070.42892c769f613@horde.nts.ch> Message-ID: <20050516192701.B59375@odysseus.silby.com> References: <1116286070.42892c769f613@horde.nts.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom 5789 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:29:03 -0000 On Tue, 17 May 2005 stefan@aeschbacher.ch wrote: > Could someone with knowledge of the Broadcom ethernet chips > and the bge driver check if adding support for the 5789 is > really that easy and if yes, initiate the needed steps to get > the device id's in the kernel? Adding support for new chips often is that easy, if you look in the 3com xl and Intel fxp driver histories you'll find tons of changes which are just like the one you made below. I'll commit the change if you can remind me to do so later in the week (Thursday or Friday.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack