From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Chan" Subject: Re: A new driver for Broadcom bcm5706 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:58:23 -0700 Message-ID: <1117209503.4584.11.camel@rh4> References: <1116609329.31523.16.camel@rh4> <20050527074115.GA28208@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, ffan@broadcom.com, lusinsky@broadcom.com Return-path: To: "Christoph Hellwig" In-Reply-To: <20050527074115.GA28208@infradead.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 08:41 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:15:29AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > A new driver bnx2 for Broadcom bcm5706 is available. Since the patch is > > over 500K, I've put it on the ftp server: > > > > ftp://Net_sys_anon@ftp1.broadcom.com/bnx2-2.patch > > > > The patch also includes new 1000BASE-X advertisement bit definitions in > > mii.h > > These defintions overlap older 10MB/s defintions. I don't think the number > space is scare enough to need this hack. If we absolutely want to keep it > you should at least add some big comments explaining it. > > Yes they do. But these overlapping bit definitions are defined by the 802.3 standard for 1000Base-X. These are not Broadcom proprietary definitions.