On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:25:17PM +0100, Chris Stromblad wrote: > (I originally addressed this to the freebsd-hardware, but got no response, > so please forgive me for reposting this here!) > > Hi, > > It appears as if the Marvell 88E8040 is not yet supported by FreeBSD and > specifically the msk(4) driver. I would just like to know if there are any > plans on adding support for the above mentioned NIC. >
I'd like to add support 88E8040(Yukon2 FE+ PCIe Fast ethernet controller). I don't think just adding a PCI id is sufficient to make it work but it would be even better if you can send me the 'pciconf -lcv' output to me. I think one of the serious issue of Yukon2 FE+ is introduction of new descriptor format and additional bugs for the chip/phy as other variants. Since there are no documentation for controller/phy hardware, it may take longer than you would expect to see a working/stable driver. I guess disabling TSO and checksum offload may make it possible to write a minimal driver for the hardware. I'll let you know when I have code to test. I cannot say the code written by me would work as I don't have that hardware. > Normally I wouldn't even bother asking, and just shrug and say, tough luck > they don't support it... next distribution. Thing is, I really, really > like FreeBSD. I'm kind of a GNU/Linux guy, but I've never managed to > settle for a distribution and have moved from one to another, never quite > finding something that works with me, and not against me. > > Then I tried FreeBSD, actually I just read much of the available > documentation and I was "converted". _THIS_ is how documentation should be > written; clear, concise, to the point and most of all, USEFUL! Thank you! > > So, my point is that I really want this to work out. I'm willing to give > as much time as necessary to get this driver working. Whether it's just a > little Device_ID change in the source, I don't know. However, if anyone is > up for helping me getting this to work, I'll provide whatever information > I can. > > Many thanks, and keep up the fantastic work on the FreeBSD operating system. > > Regards, > Christoffer Str?mblad > > PS: I've tried 8.0-CURRENT (snapshot from 27122007), 7.0-RC1 and FreeBSD > 6.3, no luck. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
