Rrrrrr.....

[Duncan Barclay]

Dear Bill,

On 27-May-2003 Bill Paul wrote:
> Ok, I've gotten enough e-mail about this now that it's starting to be
> annoying, so I'm going to nip this in the bud right now.

If this was prompted by my private email earlier today then I am sorry
to have been the straw that broke your back. Having searched the
archives over the past couple of days and not finding too much hard
information on this chipset I decided a short note to you might speed
up the effort I am making in porting the Linux driver. Maybe I didn't
make that clear. I have been posting to -current and -mobile on the
topic over the past week.

The information below confirming that the API is different is all
that I asked for. I will carry on with my porting effort.

Thanks

Duncan

> People have started asking me about the Broadcom 4400 series chips.
> They have noticed that there's this "if_bge" driver with the word
> "Broadcom" associated with it, and seem to think it may somehow be
> coerced into working with the 44xx chipset, even though the documentation
> implies nothing of the sort. So everybody listen up:
> 
> *NO*, the 44xx chips are *NOT* the same as the 57xx chips. The 57xx
> devices are 10/100/1000. The 44xx are 10/100 *ONLY*.
> 
> *NO* they do *NOT* have the same programming API.
> 
> *NO*, the bge(4) driver will *NOT* work with the 44xx chips. Ever. I don't
> care how much you whine.
> 
> *NO* I don't have any programming manuals for the 44xx chips and don't
> know (or care) if I ever will.
> 
> *NO* I will *NOT* port the Linux driver to FreeBSD.
> 
> Is everyone clear on this now? Good, because any further questions
> along these lines will be summarily ignored.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> --
> =============================================================================
> -Bill Paul            (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu
>                  wpaul at windriver.com | Wind River Systems
> =============================================================================
>       "If stupidity were a handicap, you'd have the best parking spot."
> =============================================================================

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