On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > If its actually a Realtek clone with a few differences it wouldn't make
> > sense to add a whole new driver to the system.
>
> Just a side note; the Realtek driver isn't entirely up to date. The
> chip has evolved quite a bit with it's current RTL8139C(L)+ revision and
> now can do things like descriptor-base buffer management (one of the
> major shortcomings of the first revisions and what wpaul was bitching
> about), VLAN tagging, checksum offloading and some other stuff.
>
> I haven't looked at the mys driver source but if that supports these
> new features (which probably make this new chip rev fly) it should
> be integrated also for if_rl.
Here's what teh author said about the driver:
-------start quite:
[Julian said:]
> Can you tell me if your driver was based upon an existing driver?
> If so, which one?
>
We have the driver for FreeBSD 3.X. I modified it for FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X.
Of course, when modified it for 4.X and 5.X. I refered the code of Intel
and
Realtek.
> does the hardware resemble the hardware used by that driver?
> how much?
> what is different?
Our chip is similar to Dec 21143. But they are different. We use the
concept
of "descriptor", too.
>
>
> --
> Andre
>
>
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