All right, I'll withdraw this case for now. It looks like the FreeBSD
driver has a bit more functionality for the interesting chips, so
perhaps a port of the driver to Solaris would be useful.
- Garrett
James Carlson wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>>
>>>> James Carlson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) No support for automatic link negotation/reporting. This means it
>>>>>> won't work with nwam.
>>>>>> 2) No support for full MTU vlans.
>>>>>> 3) Closed source.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> None of those things matter for the existing users. ;-}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> nwam will start to matter when we switch to using
>>>> network/physical:nwam by default.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It is strange because an earlier driver *did* properly proper
>>> full/duplex but this was removed at some time.
>>>
>>>
>> Full/duplex works. What doesn't work is link *notification*. I'm sorry
>> if this was confusing.
>>
>
> Yep; link up/down is missing there. But it's actually missing on a lot
> of interfaces that people use today, including most (all?) third-party
> drivers. It's a common annoyance.
>
> The old NWAM had kludges to work around some interfaces with stuck-on
> link status. The new NWAM will need the same. But using lack of link
> status as a justification for nuking an otherwise usable old driver
> seems a bit too much to me.
>
>
