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Re: kern/39094 (Add et (Agere ET1310/ET1301) network driver to NetBSD)



The following reply was made to PR kern/39094; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jnemeth%cornerstoneservice.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)
To: Kaspar Brand <netbsd+gnats%velox.ch@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/39094 (Add et (Agere ET1310/ET1301) network driver to NetBSD)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:41:32 -0800

 On Jan 6,  8:30pm, Kaspar Brand wrote:
 } John Nemeth wrote:
 } >  }  Finally, a last thing to note: I changed the device ID for the
 } >  }  ET1301 controller on purpose - according to the data sheet, it's
 } >  }  0xed01, not 0xed0a (as in the DragonFly/OpenBSD sources). I can't
 } >  }  verify with a real controller, however, since I only have a system
 } >  }  with an ET1310.
 } >  
 } >       Data sheets can be and are often wrong.  Can you check with some
 } >  of the other people that have this driver to see if there is a reason
 } >  for the discrepancy (such as empirical testing), please?
 } 
 } Sorry, I was mixing things up - I changed the *description* of the
 } controller in pcidevs (to "1301", as that's the correct identifier for
 } the Fast Ethernet version). The device ID must be 0xed01 in any case, cf.
 } 
 } 
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=commitdiff;h=9852a485af9827da5130a97f18c9124248c25555
 } 
 } and
 } 
 } 
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs.diff?r1=1.1195;r2=1.1196
 } 
 } (it's also what you find in the Linux and Windows drivers from Agere
 } itself). I assume it was a typo when you originally committed these changes.
 
      Yes, probably.  Corrected.  Thanks.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from Kaspar Brand
 
 


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