On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:14PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. >
There are many PCIe GigE hardwares upported by em(4) or bge/bce(4). AFAIK the only hardware features not supported by em(4)/bge(4) driver is TSO. And hardwares supported by em(4) also have a capability to offload IPv6 checksumming too but it's not yet supported by the driver. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
