The following reply was made to PR kern/35376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: smb@cs.columbia.edu
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/35376: re(4) doesn't auto-negotiate properly on GigE
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:17:03 +0900

 smb@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
 
 > No, it doesn't, and the 4.0b2 machine uses Xen, so it didn't have it,
 > either -- it's not in the Xen conf files.
 
 I'm not so familiar with Xen, but should all DOM0 kernels
 have the similar devices with GENERIC?
 
 > I'd suggest that it would probably be a good idea to add a reference to
 > rgephy in the re(4) man page, but none of the other Ethernet pages seem
 > to have phy references, either...
 
 I guess mii(4) is enough for external PHY devices
 (since they are independent from MAC on Ethernet chips),
 but I'll add note about the internal PHY in re(4) man page.
 (at least ex(4) has xref to exphy(4))
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui