From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:53:22 -0400 Received: from con-64-133-52-190-ria.sprinthome.com ([64.133.52.190]:53515 "EHLO ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:53:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:52:21 -0700 From: Matthew Dharm To: Alan Cox Cc: Riley Williams , Ion Badulescu , Shawn Starr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T Message-ID: <20010614145221.H17427@one-eyed-alien.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Riley Williams , Ion Badulescu , Shawn Starr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zhtSGe8h3+lMyY1M" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:29:26PM +0100 Organization: One Eyed Alien Networks X-Copyright: (C) 2001 Matthew Dharm, all rights reserved. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --zhtSGe8h3+lMyY1M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I know, jumping in at this late-stage is bad form... but if we're talking about the Intel 82543GC Gigabit MAC, why doesn't someone just use the FreeBSD if_wx.c driver as a starting point? It took me a while to find, as they refer to it as the LIVENGOOD instead of the 82543, but the PCI ProductID values seem to match... Matt On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:29:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > As I see it, if Shawn has permission to freely distribute the specs, > > he can send a copy to Alan Cox for forwarding to the relevant driver > > developers. However, if he has to sign an NDA to get them, they're > > useless... > >=20 > > Alan: Am I right in assuming this? >=20 > It depends on the NDA. Lots of vendors NDA their docs because they give e= nough > info to cloen the hardware, or explain how to fab the chip, or include pe= rsonal > details of employees .. and a million other reasons. Many sensible, many = quite > daft. >=20 > But in my experience you have a better chance of getting a straight answe= r out > of a politician than intels networking folks. Maybe they have reformed >=20 > Alan >=20 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver It was a new hope. -- Dust Puppy User Friendly, 12/25/1998 --zhtSGe8h3+lMyY1M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7KTIVz64nssGU+ykRAgBjAJ9fjEx29WoJZYTfVcud6JWNSWzSRwCffTh/ uUX+ZJn4/PokffEKm1G7ciE= =VGDW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhtSGe8h3+lMyY1M--