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From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Status of 3C589D driver (and BCM57XX)
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2006 18:57:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0ac85f90602021857y177f472fn633128880906d509@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514BDE31-C54D-4FA2-B851-6A1A5762D90A@orthanc.ca>

On 2/2/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> I have started examining the FreeBSD bge driver in the hope it will make the
> basis for a driver port.  (Anyone out there have a pointer to
> hardware doc for the 57XX series?  I've looked in the obvious places
> but can't find anything.)

the only docs for the BCM57XX family are the open source drivers.
jmk has sent me what he started on for a driver, and he and i are
actively working on a driver for the broadcom chips. he has hardware
to tes it, and i have time to write it. if you'd like to be a tester,
that would be helpful.

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03  2:43 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-03  2:57 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2006-02-03  3:12   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-03 13:30   ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-03 14:20     ` uriel
2006-02-03 14:24       ` Dan Cross
2006-03-02 16:08   ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-02-03  3:23 ` jmk
2006-02-03 10:13 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-02-03 16:02   ` jmk

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