On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:25:16AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:27:33AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > On Aug 22, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > Author: yongari
> > > Date: Sun Aug 22 21:26:35 2010
> > > New Revision: 211648
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211648
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >  It seems some newer RTL8139 controllers provides only memory space
> > >  register mapping.
> > 
> > Something that I'm seeing more of in recent years is vendors putting 
> > descriptive information into PCI VPD attributes, and having their Windows 
> > and Linux drivers read these attributes and select behavior off of them 
> > instead of selecting based on PCI ID.  I don't have any RLT8139 specs to 
> > confirm that this would be the case here, but it might be something to 
> > consider looking into.
> > 
> 
> I also don't have data sheet for RTL8139 and I never saw rl(4)
> controllers which have VPD capability. But I think that's good idea
> to check. I've sent request mail to the user.
> Thanks for hints. :-)
> 

It seems the controller has no PCI VPD capability so I guess the
idea is not applicable to RTL8139 controllers.
Anyway, thanks a lot!
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