From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 13:16:30 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 0316C16A41F; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:16:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from ford.blinkenlights.nl (ford.blinkenlights.nl [213.204.211.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8074E43D48; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:16:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from tea.blinkenlights.nl (tea.blinkenlights.nl [IPv6:2001:980:ffe:3:a00:20ff:fe85:fa39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ford.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38426179CFA; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id C8497272; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6681BA; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten Spans To: "O. Hartmann" In-Reply-To: <4305B410.2030207@mail.uni-mainz.de> Message-ID: References: <20050818200208.26042.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> <4304F83E.6090400@t-hosting.hu> <4305B410.2030207@mail.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: alan bryan , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nve0 nvidia onboard ethernet dies daily on 6.0 beta1 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: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:16:30 -0000 On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > > I'm also interested in fixing the omnipresent nve-problems, but reading the > manpages for nve(4) reveals the bad circumstance that this driver seems to be > 'wrapped' around a Linux binary object. Nvidia obviously isn't willing to > offer documentation about the chip's internals so it will be hard to develop > an open source driver for this NIC. That sounds to me to get happy with a > 'ever GIANT locked' nve NIC using FreeBSD 6.X The linux forcedeth driver is supposedly quite decent nowadays, nvidia even helped adding gigabit support. It should be a good source of information for building an opensource bsd driver. That said, nvidia just aint too great at building ethernet chips, if decent performance is a requirement I'd suggest getting something else. -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem