On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:01:57AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Marius Strobl wrote: > > marius 2006-01-31 14:48:58 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Added files: > > sys/dev/le am7990.c am79900.c am79900reg.h > > am79900var.h am7990reg.h am7990var.h > > if_le_ledma.c if_le_pci.c lance.c > > lancereg.h lancevar.h > > Log: > > Add le(4), a driver for AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs ported > > from NetBSD. This driver actually can replace lnc(4). Advantages over > > lnc(4) are: > > - Cleaner and more flexible regarding MD needs. > > - Endian-clean and MPSAFE. > > - Supports ALTQ, VLAN_MTU, ifmedia. > > - Uses 32bit DMA for the PCI variants. > > > > This commit includes front-ends for the dma(4) pseudo-bus found on SBus- > > based sparc64 machines (thus supports the on-board LANCE in Sun Ultra 1) > > and PCI. In order to actually replace lnc(4), the front-ends for ISA and > > the PC98 CBUS would have to be added but for which I don't have hardware > > to test. > > > > Reviewed and some improvements by: yongari > > Tested on: i386, sparc64 > > > > Excellent job! One question, though. I believe that VMWare emulates > Lance hardware. If your new le driver works on that, then I see no > reason to not disable the lnc driver and enable the le driver by > default. >
The NetBSD version is known to work with the VMWare LANCE (it actually also has the same workaround as lnc(4) for a bug in the emulation) so I think the ported version also will. I haven't given that a try so far however and only tested it with real PCI hardware as my main goal is to get it into RELENG_6 as soon as possible in order to get it into 6.1 (without replacing lnc(4) in the default config). If someone could give it a try with VMWare so I don't need to get a copy and probably a Windows installation that would be really great though. My plan is to let le(4) replace lnc(4) in the mid term however. Regarding getting it into RELENG_6 for inclusion in 6.1 what time for the MFC would you prefer from the re@ point of view? Marius -- This mail was scanned by AntiVir Milter. This product is licensed for non-commercial use. See www.antivir.de for details. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
