Dear Bill, On 27-May-2003 Bill Paul wrote: > Ok, I've gotten enough e-mail about this now that it's starting to be > annoying, so I'm going to nip this in the bud right now.
If this was prompted by my private email earlier today then I am sorry to have been the straw that broke your back. Having searched the archives over the past couple of days and not finding too much hard information on this chipset I decided a short note to you might speed up the effort I am making in porting the Linux driver. Maybe I didn't make that clear. I have been posting to -current and -mobile on the topic over the past week. The information below confirming that the API is different is all that I asked for. I will carry on with my porting effort. Thanks Duncan > People have started asking me about the Broadcom 4400 series chips. > They have noticed that there's this "if_bge" driver with the word > "Broadcom" associated with it, and seem to think it may somehow be > coerced into working with the 44xx chipset, even though the documentation > implies nothing of the sort. So everybody listen up: > > *NO*, the 44xx chips are *NOT* the same as the 57xx chips. The 57xx > devices are 10/100/1000. The 44xx are 10/100 *ONLY*. > > *NO* they do *NOT* have the same programming API. > > *NO*, the bge(4) driver will *NOT* work with the 44xx chips. Ever. I don't > care how much you whine. > > *NO* I don't have any programming manuals for the 44xx chips and don't > know (or care) if I ever will. > > *NO* I will *NOT* port the Linux driver to FreeBSD. > > Is everyone clear on this now? Good, because any further questions > along these lines will be summarily ignored. > > -Bill > > -- > ============================================================================= > -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems > ============================================================================= > "If stupidity were a handicap, you'd have the best parking spot." > ============================================================================= -- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
