Marvell YukonII Status Update?

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:14PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
 > On 6/30/06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
 > > > Anyone know what's going on with YukonII support in FreeBSD,
 > > > specifically the Marvell chips used in PCI-Express add-on cards?
 > > >
 > > > Last I checked somebody was developing an experimental driver and
 > > > Marvell had just released the code to their FreeBSD 5.x/6.x driver:
 > > > mykbsd60x86-8.12.2.3.tar (bindary kmod package)
 > > > mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz (source code)
 > > >
 > >
 > >I don't know current status of the driver. ATM FreeBSD YukonII
 > >driver has stability issues and the driver needs big cleanups
 > >if we import the driver into src tree. But I wouldn't do the
 > >job and I'll spend my spare time to other thing.
 > >I know, from my previous experience(sk(4), stge(4)), how
 > >difficult to write a driver without a document and how hard to
 > >write a correct driver without knowing hardware internals. I'm
 > >sure there are many developers eager to write YukonII driver if
 > >they can access the hardware documentation. However I think there
 > >is no possibility that Marvell releases their chip documentations.
 > >
 > 
 > Marvell will give you the docs if you sign an NDA, I know it's stupid
 > but I think it's the only way... unless we vote with the wallet... Who
 > has PCI-Express gigabit NIC cards that meet the following criteria?:
 > 
 > a) Supported by FreeBSD.
 > b) Unencumbered documentation.
 > c) Checksum offloading.
 > 

There are many PCIe GigE hardwares upported by em(4) or bge/bce(4).
AFAIK the only hardware features not supported by em(4)/bge(4) driver
is TSO. And hardwares supported by em(4) also have a capability to 
offload IPv6 checksumming too but it's not yet supported by the driver.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon