On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 23:07 -0600, James Painter wrote: > For what it is worth, I have working AX88178 code for the usbnet driver > I've been trying to find time to polish up to submit. I've been using > it daily for several months in a backport to 2.4 for an embedded system > (tivo). It's had less exercise in a 2.6 environment, but it's passed > the tests I've thrown at it. > > 95% of the code is shared with the existing 88772 code already in the > usbnet driver, so it makes sense to me to share the common > infrastructure rather than introduce another driver. > > --Jamie
I'm the current maintainer of the ASIX code in usbnet. I've spent some time working with ASIX on a driver for the AX88178 device, but it hasn't gotten to a stable point worth merging at this time. Let's work together to get this code fixed up so that we can have a stable driver that doesn't re-invent the wheel. One of the things I am currently trying to implement is use of the new PHY abstraction code (in -mm, not mainline at this point) since according to ASIX, there are many different potential PHY controllers that might be used with the 178 chip. All of the traffic handling bits operate the same as the AX88772 chip so it's really just a matter of handling initialization of the device and handling the PHY. -- David Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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