From: "Manfred Schwarb" <manfred99@gmx.ch>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dadams1969@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: driver for et131x?
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:50:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105235056.170200@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105085823.GA19656@infradead.org>
Christoph,
> 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?
I'm afraid my c and linux network driver programming knowledge is not
good enough to dare to take up such a project.
However, I would volunteer to do the dirty work, i.e. bring it to
linux coding style, try to clean up some #ifdef and typedef things,
if there is someone to take it over afterwards, who will do the
"real" work.
Regards,
Manfred
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 10:02 driver for et131x? Manfred Schwarb
2008-01-05 8:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-05 23:50 ` Manfred Schwarb [this message]
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2008-01-05 23:35 ` Manfred Schwarb
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