Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-20T15:03:04Z

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:47 -0700 (PDT)
Kevin E <kevin360@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Someone wrote me with a solution to try and so far
> it's working. They suggested I try the driver up on
> Marvell's website but to make sure I powered off the
> machine completely and when it rebooted to not have
> any of the regular kernel drivers for the Marvell
> chipset to load. They had found that letting the sky2
> load and then unloading the module would mean the
> vendor's driver wouldn't work.
>
> So I got down the latest driver package they have
> (10.0.5.3). At first I couldn't get it compiled
> against kernel 2.6.22.3 that I'm running, but I have
> it compiled with the 2.6.21.5 kernel, which is what
> the machine is running now. And I'm happy to say that
> it's working fine so far. I've transfered about 4G
> over the link and it's still working fine.
>
> Since Marvell's driver seems to be working for the
> 88E8056 chipset and from what I've looked at the code
> it's marked as GPL, could it be rolled into the kernel
> for those of us that have 88E8056 chipsets that are
> working to use?
>

Submit for code review, and cleanup the resulting comments.
Good luck.

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>