From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: driver for et131x? Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 08:58:24 +0000 Message-ID: <20080105085823.GA19656@infradead.org> References: <20080104100253.63070@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Dean Adams To: Manfred Schwarb Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34882 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752479AbYAEI6Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 03:58:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080104100253.63070@gmx.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Manfred Schwarb wrote: > meanwhile the Agere et1310 chip has grown to a quite popular network > chip, in laptops as well as for PCI-E cards. The release date of this chip was > already in June 2004, and still no support in mainline linux. > > There is apparently an opensource driver from Agere which is maintained by > volunteers at http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x/ > > It seems some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) even patch their kernels with this driver. > > Please consider adding support for this chip in mainline linux. The driver on the above site would need quite a bit of work to bring it up to Linux standards. That work shouldn't be difficult but enough to keep someone busy for a while. If you have the hardware I'd be happy yo guide you through the required work. Are you interested in taking up this project?