Subject: Re: INTEL 82573E on CURRENT
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/2005 22:39:15
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:09:58 GMT
tron@zhadum.org.uk (Matthias Scheler) wrote:

> In article <20051102191727.49279bdb.lists@yazzy.org>,
> 	Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> writes:
> > It's just not easy to read the FreeBSD code and figure out the
> > equivalents used by NetBSD.
> 
> They are using a driver based on sources provided by Intel. And that
> is source is apparently used for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and possibly
> other Unix like operating system with as little modification as
> possible. So you end up with a code which is unpleasant to read and
> ignores most of the concepts of the target operating system.

I do not want to use any of the FreeBSD code. 
The last thing I need to figure out before I have a working driver on
NetBSD is how that card reads correct values off the EEPROM.
And that thing is done by the FreeBSD's driver.

Regards,
Marcin Jessa