Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:56:26 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, dirkx@covalent.net Subject: Re: Myson drivers for 4.x Message-ID: <3C7EA78A.8010800@pipeline.ch>
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> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: >> I have been speaking with the author. >> he is adding a BSD copyright. >> also he says we can KNFify (style(9)ify?) as it doesn't have to >> remain >> compatible with anything else. > > It might be nice if it could be folded into the driver it was copied from, > if thats still possible. > > If its actually a Realtek clone with a few differences it wouldn't make > sense to add a whole new driver to the system. Just a side note; the Realtek driver isn't entirely up to date. The chip has evolved quite a bit with it's current RTL8139C(L)+ revision and now can do things like descriptor-base buffer management (one of the major shortcomings of the first revisions and what wpaul was bitching about), VLAN tagging, checksum offloading and some other stuff. I haven't looked at the mys driver source but if that supports these new features (which probably make this new chip rev fly) it should be integrated also for if_rl. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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