On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:16:42PM +0100, Florian Pose wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:13:48PM -0800, Aaron Edsinger wrote: > > We're also very interested in getting a RTL8168 driver working but > > don't have the skill set in-house. We've looked around to contract the > > work out but with no luck yet (we have only modest resources). I'm > > wondering if anyone on the list: > > > > a) is willing to pool resources to fund the work > > b) would be willing to do the work given a fee > > > > Of course we would contribute the results to the Etherlab package. > > Florian, do you have an estimate for how long it would take a skilled > > device coder to do this work? > > this is the r8169 driver, isn't it? It indeed a very attractive driver to > support, because the Realtek Gigabit chipsets are used in many embedded PCs > and > panel PCs I know. This list of supported chips is wide-spread: > > PCI: > > RTL8169 > RTL8169s > RTL8110s > RTL8169sb/8110sb > RTL8169sc/8110sc > RTL8169sc/8110sc > > PCIe: > > RTL8168b/8111b > RTL8168b/8111b > RTL8101e > RTL8100e > RTL8100e > RTL8168b/8111b > RTL8101e > RTL8168cp/8111cp > RTL8168c/8111c > RTL8168c/8111c > > I just looked into the code and it seems not as complicated as the Intel > drivers. I would estimate 1-2 days for getting a driver to work and another > day > for testing and porting it to different kernel versions. > > I'll speak to my boss if we can perhaps participate with development...
Any news on the status of a possible r8169 ethercat driver? I'll also need support for this driver soonish. Thanks, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
