Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:53:20 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Yves" <yves@realtek.com.tw>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to update driver ? Message-ID: <006101c1637b$d21986a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <002101c16377$891223d0$b12314ac@rtcn3896>
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Hello Yves, Thanks for your interest in contributing! To continuously maintain a driver in FreeBSD you would normally become a "committer" and have committ rights to the FreeBSD source tree. You have to spend some time at this because first you need to be subscribed to the freebsd-current mailing list, and second you need to run a FreeBSD system that tracks FreeBSD-Current, which is the release train that all the active development is done on. However if you just want to modify an existing driver without doing this then it may be possible to work with an existing FreeBSD developer. In the case of the Realtek driver, the name of the developer that is doing the work on it is Bill Paul. You can see this by looking at the CVS tag, the one in if_rl.c is this: "$FreeBSD: src/sys/pci/if_rl.c,v 1.38.2.7 2001/07/19 18:33:07 wpaul Exp $" you see the last modification is by wpaul on 7/9/2001. If you look him up on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-committ ers.html you see that his e-mail address is wpaul@freebsd.org as is listed on this page. If that doesen't work then you can also send your modifications in via the send-pr mechanism. See the following page for instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/contrib-how.h tml Ted Mittelstaedt >Dear sir, > > Our company, Realtek semiconductor Corp., is an IC design house and many NIC >chips such as RTL8139C are designed by our company. >Now, we have a new NIC chip, the RTL8139C+, which can lower CPU utilization. And we >have modified the driver of rtl8139c to support >the new features of our C+ mode chip. This modified driver has been tested in our >company lab and it is fully compatible with old 8139C NIC. >If possible, we hope to update the driver source to suppot this new chip and we will >continuously maintain this driver. >Sincerely, >Yves Sheu >Realtek Simiconductor Corp. >N0. 2, Industry E. Rd. IX, Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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