On 6/30/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Anyone know what's going on with YukonII support in FreeBSD,
> specifically the Marvell chips used in PCI-Express add-on cards?
>
> Last I checked somebody was developing an experimental driver and
> Marvell had just released the code to their FreeBSD 5.x/6.x driver:
> mykbsd60x86-8.12.2.3.tar (bindary kmod package)
> mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz (source code)
>
I don't know current status of the driver. ATM FreeBSD YukonII
driver has stability issues and the driver needs big cleanups
if we import the driver into src tree. But I wouldn't do the
job and I'll spend my spare time to other thing.
I know, from my previous experience(sk(4), stge(4)), how
difficult to write a driver without a document and how hard to
write a correct driver without knowing hardware internals. I'm
sure there are many developers eager to write YukonII driver if
they can access the hardware documentation. However I think there
is no possibility that Marvell releases their chip documentations.
Marvell will give you the docs if you sign an NDA, I know it's stupid
but I think it's the only way... unless we vote with the wallet... Who
has PCI-Express gigabit NIC cards that meet the following criteria?:
a) Supported by FreeBSD.
b) Unencumbered documentation.
c) Checksum offloading.
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