Subject: bge driver supports BCM5702/4401?
To: current-users@netbsd.org <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Werner Backes <werner@bit-1.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/25/2002 20:38:46
Hello,

does the bge driver has support for the BCM5702 chip? if_bge.c 's
header says "Broadcom BCM570x family gigabit ethernet driver for
NetBSD" but the 5702 is not listed in the ASIC version list. 
Does this mean it is not supported? If not, would it be easy to 
make the bge driver to support this chip or would it require a
device driver to be written? And finally (that's what I really
want to know :-)) would the 10/100Mbit version of this chip,
the BCM4401 work with this driver? The product brief of the chip
claims it is pin- and software compatible with the BCM5702 but
I'm not shure if they mean "register compatible" by this.
Btw. it is the onboard ethernet chip used on some ASUS A7V8x
boards so support for it would probably be nice.

Werner