Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:20:27 -0800 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latitude D800 Message-ID: <20031125182027.GA9241@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20031125100747.G26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <20031125174622.GA5241@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <20031125100747.G26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike Hunter wrote: > > > On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote: > > > > If no one else has done this yet, and I do this and it works, where's > > > the best place to submit the PCI ID so it gets included into the > > > driver for future generations? > > > I went down this same road about 2 months ago. I moved to 5.1-current > > (October 3), whose bge driver supports the onboard nic out of the box. > > It works great. > > Okay, cool. I'm trying to stay way from -current as I really don't have > time to follow the mailing list. I was just going to make the NIC go, and > cvsup the latest RELENG_5_1 until 5.2 or 5-S was branched. I don't mind > editing the driver to recognize the chip after cvsup, and that it's > already in -C means I don't need to worry about submitting it either. I tried the same thing. I tried dumping updated versions of the if_bge.c file into the 5-release source, but it didn't work because there'd been an API change that wasn't easy to hack around (I tired, but got a kernel pannic.)
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