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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Attempting to make sk(4) work on Marvell 88E5053 (advise needed)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0507210742150.4244@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <1d6d20bc050703113864394536@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1d6d20bc050703113864394536@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Jia-Shiun Li wrote:

Hi,

> My (and probably many of yours) motherboard Asus P5GD1 PRO has Marvell
> 88E5053 on board, but currently there is no working driver for it, so
> I tried to modify sk(4) to make it work.
>
> I took a brief look at the syskonnect Linux driver v8.16, there seems
> no much differences among PCI and PCI-express chips, so I tried to
> fill missing identifiers to see if I am lucky enough. But the answer
> is no. :p

there are more differences than you'd expect. It's on TODO of some
people to write the new driver but mostly ENOSPECS and ENOTIME
problems.

> Attached is my attempt, and the result message is below. Looks like
> 300+ KB jumbo frame buffer is too much to allocate.

That's another problem with more drivers. I guess it'll succeed if
driver gets attached during boot.

> It would be very
> appreciated if any one can give some advises.

poke Marvell for the _specs_ so we can write a BSD licensed driver.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048265.html

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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