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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:28 +0200 (EET)
From:      Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee>
To:        Christophe =?ISO-8859-1?B?UHLpdm90YXV4?= <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
Cc:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, Fore and VPI>0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201292330290.94635-100000@valu.uninet.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20020118132054.0a8a7153.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Christophe Prévotaux wrote:

> And to answer Taavi Talvik's comments , I think it is a catch 22 situation
> there can only be more supported hardware if people use ATM in FreeBSD and they
> can only use it if there are more hardware supported.
> 
> The reason is simple IMHO, many people will look at what IS currently supported
> under FreeBSD in order to purchase adequate hardware. Of course I am talking
> about users and not develloper ,because not every user of FreeBSD is also 
> a develloper.

Now I finally got Efficent 3060 driver to working condition. There is
still some work to do:

	to clean up kld unloading and VC deletion

	to separate Alcatel MTC-20316 (and similiar PHY) into mii bus
	driver as there are other PCI cards which can use this (I have
	3Com cards with IDT77225 SAR and alcatel ADSL)

	and I probably have to make port of this driver as alcatel
	firmware is actually axtracted from windows driver and can't
	legally distribute it (after 2 years of unsuccessful discussions
	with efficient and alcatel I gave up)

Still, after 2-3 weeks there will be another ATM card driver for freebsd
available in some form.

PS. Harti, maybe you can convince core team to include your netgraph
patches for NATM in current?

best regards,
taavi


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