From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 7 11:03:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11854 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11832 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA22328; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Smith cc: Marc Slemko , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: Lite-On PNIC (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199810070742.AAA01166@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Added Bill Paul to the CC:] On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > Bill Paul has more or less inadvertently rewritten the 'de' driver > while writing support for the Winbond 100Mbps chips. We might want to > go with something that's slightly less of an ifdef tangle (have you > tried looking at the 'de' sources?), especially if the maintainer > continues to be too busy to maintain it. > > It would be interesting to test these changes though. You're proposing to provide Bill with examples of -all- the different varients of the Tulip cards and enough hard drugs to keep in in the state of mind required to do the work? Impressive. The PNIC changes appear to be straight forward (though they could probably use some un-grunging) and in line with existing code to support other Tulip varients. Though I would speak to Bill about this first, I'm betting the best course would be to apply some flavor of this patch and move on to better things. I'm pretty sure that more duplicated code would be a step backwards. (Unless of ocurse, Bill accepts your crates of cards and your stash of smack.) (I would really fear a Bill-written Tulip driver; his other code is really clean and it would be interesting to see his solution to the Tulip mess.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message