From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 17:27:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25B316A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from stimpy.forestinformatics.com (cvo-cr1-200-239.peak.org [69.59.200.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF1243D48; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:27:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from rodan ([192.168.0.10]) by stimpy.forestinformatics.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id j8FHRNMc092779; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Message-ID: <001d01c5ba1a$bc83fdd0$0a00a8c0@rodan> From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: , Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:27:16 -0700 Organization: Forest Informatics, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on stimpy.forestinformatics.com Cc: Subject: building/porting linux SIS965L driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Jeff D. Hamann" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:27:29 -0000 I'm building (or trying to build) an amd64 FreeBSD machine to replace my FreeBSD 4.4 server. I purchased an ASUS Vintage-AE1 MB that uses the following chipsets: Northbridge: SiS760GX Southbridge: SiS965L I've not been able to get the on-board NIC to light up, so I purchased another NIC which works alright. It's bothering me too much that the chipset isn't supported (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html) but many of the other ASUS MB chipsets are. This seems like a great machine and I suspect there are plenty more machines that will be using this barebones box as a starting place (of course, I'll be wrong in a year anyways). I've found the linux driver for the on-board NIC and since I've never ported a driver for FreeBSD, I'm trying to figure out how much work it will be to port the driver to FreeBSD-6.0? I've snooped around in the /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sisreg.h 6.0Beta4 files to simply examine the bsd code. To my novice eyes, the files look completely different from the linux drivers and I'm not sure I can takle this myself since I've never done anything like this. Can someone help me through this process, or is this not worth the trouble? Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com