Re: Call for testing: Attansic L1E

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> > Great work! Thanks. I committed the driver to get more users/testers.
>
> Is it possible to pull the driver plus the atphy up to 5.0? As it's rather 
> late in the release cycle, it could be added commented out in the GENRIC 
> kernel config file?

No, it's too close to release to pullup ale+atphy, but:

> I added it to 5.0_RC4 by copying the files
>
> sys/dev/mii/atphy.c
> sys/dev/pci/if_ale.c
> sys/dev/pci/if_alereg.h
>
> from -current and applying the patch below (modulo make -f Makefile.miidevs 
> and make -f Makefile.pcidevs).

I'll get the miidevs and pcidevs changes pulled up.

> The only non-obvious pull-up would be revision 
> 1.62 of sys/dev/mii/mii_physubr.c, which added the mii_anar() function used 
> by the driver.

That's just been pulled-up to netbsd-5 to make testing ale(4) and atphy(4) 
easier.

--
Stephen