On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hey, > > Are there any plans to support the AR8161/8165 chipset? > [ none2@pci… class=0x02000 card=0x397917aa chip=0x10911969 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 ] >
Don't know about AR8165 but your controller looks like AR8161 (L1F) Gigabit Ethernet. When I contacted QAC(Qualcomm Atheros Communications) to get an engineering board for AR8161/AR8162 I was told that QAC is working on unified driver for Linux/FreeBSD. It seems their plan was to release a Linux/FreeBSD driver that supports all AR81xx family. However it appears their endeavor was not successful and Linux wanted to pick up the new driver for L1F/L2F controllers only rather than replacing existing drivers with QAC's new one. This decision made QAC to overhaul Linux driver (alx) to follow Linux's decision and their priority was to get a stable Linux driver. It was long time ago and I don't know current status. QAC already donated a couple of engineering samples so I guess it wouldn't take a long time for me to write a driver for AR816x/AR817x but I still have mixed feelings about writing a driver at this moment. > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
