On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:31:58PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Another example appears to be the Intel PRO/1000 MT card. Intel has > > an open source driver for it, but when I search their web site the > > most I find are product briefs and white papers[3]. (I know the link > > is for their PRO/1000 XF card, but that is the page I was directed to > > when I clicked on ``Technical Documents'' from the PRO/1000 GT page.) > > Intel, Broadcom, and Marvell are the only three vendors still left who > fail to publish documentation for their ethernet chips. (OK, there > are a few others, but they are mostly for very rare new products, and > people like jsg will soon win them over). > > These vendors do help with fixing the drivers in some limited scope. > And that's the problem. They only help a little. If they wrote > complete bug-free drivers and promised to maintain them for us forever > it would be one story, but that is not what is going on.
For the longest time it was quite hard to get documentation out of the networking side of Intel, but it recent years they publish reasonably detailed manuals for 10/100 (fxp) and 10/100/1000 (em) controllers and some PHYs. I have not been able to find any 10GbE (ixgb) manuals and suspect they don't publish them. Anything at all to do with wireless there is no documentation from Intel at all also. fxp http://www.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8255x_opensdm.htm em http://www.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8254x_GBe_SDM.htm
