From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 12 13:23:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B2437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2350E43E75 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2136772FC5; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D63572D9E; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Polstra Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?) In-Reply-To: <200209111611.g8BGBBFT031897@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: <20020912124621.I82726-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While we're nitpicking: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Polstra wrote: > All of the documentation and errata for the BCM570x chips are > protected by NDA, just like every other gigabit MAC in current > production. Through the graciousness of Intel we also have a contributed driver for their gig-e cards (em). Thanks to all who lined that up, it works great. But broadcom does take the cake for being anal about NDAs. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message