From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Manfred Schwarb" Subject: Re: driver for et131x? Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:50:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20080105235056.170200@gmx.net> References: <20080104100253.63070@gmx.net> <20080105085823.GA19656@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dadams1969@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53068 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752762AbYAEXu6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:50:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080105085823.GA19656@infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail