On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN <pyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> ] >> > 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. Why the mixed feelings? The more hardware we support out of the box the more likely it is that users will stick with FreeBSD. If I could tell people that "yes, this laptop completely works with FreeBSD" that would be awesome. -- 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"
