OpenBSD driver for nforce-based ethernetcards.

OpenBSD driver for nforce-based ethernetcards.

[Han Boetes]

Hi,

I just read this announcement on a well known OpenBSD forum:

  http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060206150238&mode=expanded


So if anyone is interested in writing a driver for Linux for the
nvidia ethernet cards: That's a nice place to start.


The sourcecode can be found over here:

  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/

Under the name if_nfe*



# Han

Re: OpenBSD driver for nforce-based ethernetcards.

[Matti Aarnio]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:24:56AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote:
> Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:24:56 +0059
> From:	Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
> To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: OpenBSD driver for nforce-based ethernetcards.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just read this announcement on a well known OpenBSD forum:
>   http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060206150238&mode=expanded
> 
> So if anyone is interested in writing a driver for Linux for the
> nvidia ethernet cards: That's a nice place to start.

Quick browse of the forum:

  Re: testers required for NVIDIA Ethernet driver (mod 2/4)
  by Anonymous Coward (IP 208.252.48.163) on Mon Feb 6 21:31:33 2006 (GMT)

  How much of this is based on the reverse engineered Linux driver for
  forcedeth?

  Re: testers required for NVIDIA Ethernet driver (mod 11/11)
  by jsg (IP 210.15.216.215) on Mon Feb 6 22:39:51 2006 (GMT)

  It was consulted for register offsets and semantics if we weren't sure
  what was supposed to happen. If you look at the code you'll see our
  driver is a hell of a lot easier on the eyes and like half the size.


So yes, perhaps  'forcedeth'  driver would use some heavy handed
cleanup,  but it does not mean it does not exist...


> The sourcecode can be found over here:
>   http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/
> Under the name if_nfe*
>  
> # Han

  /Matti Aarnio