Re: [PATCH 2.4] forcedeth

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Attached is forcedeth: A new driver for the ethernet interface of the
> NVIDIA nForce chipset, licensed under GPL.
> 
> The driver was written without support from NVIDIA, it's the result of
> a cleanroom development:
> Carl-Daniel and Andrew reverse engineered the nvnet driver and wrote a
> specification, Manfred wrote the driver based on the spec. Since the
> driver has been available and working for a while now, Carl-Daniel
> fitted some compat glue to make it compile under 2.4.
> 
> This release it intended for developers, it's alpha quality: normal
> network traffic could work, although slow due to incomplete interrupt
> handling. It does work on two nForce 2 systems, nForce and nForce 3
> are untested.


Neat!  I saw Manfred posted this driver for 2.6.x, as well.  I'm glad 
soembody FINALLY got around to supporting this chipset under Linux.

Anyway, even with an alpha-quality driver, it's a driver that works 
where otherwise the kernel doesn't.  So, after I review the driver, I 
would prefer to merge it soon rather than later.  It gets users going, 
after all.

Has nVidia yelled yet?  Since it's cleanroom, according to you, I don't 
see any problems at all...

	Jeff