On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:07:46PM +0100, tlaronde wrote:
> I have a candidate hardware with a Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet
> Controller PCI-E that is, generally, bundled with the 8169 and al.
> family.
>
> Realtek publish drivers for various systems, so I retrieved the code
> for FreeBSD to give it a look and try to add this new card to the
> (9front) pc/ether8169.c driver:
>
> https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=584
>
> But there are discrepancies between the 9front driver and the Realtek
> FreeBSD modified one.
>
> For example, when retrieving the macver, the Plan9 driver uses a
> mask of:
>
> HwveridMASK = 0x7C800000
>
> while the Realtek driver uses 0xFC800000
>
To be more precise: the Realtek driver uses 0xFC800000 for macver, and
uses 0x7CF00000 for Hardware revision.
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