Marvell 8053 support?

LI Xin delphij at delphij.net
Tue Jan 9 16:06:35 UTC 2007


Mars G. Miro wrote:
> On 1/9/07, LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
>> Mars G. Miro wrote:
>> > Greetz!
>> >
>> > I happen to play w/ a newish Gigabyte mobo that has an on-board
>> > Marvell 8053 GigE NIC. FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 i386, amd64 does not seem to
>> > support it. Does anyone know if this is supported? I'm currently
>> > taking a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/ , tho this
>> > NIC isnt mentioned there at all.
>>
>> A quick glance at msk(4) on -CURRENT shows that 88E8053 is supposed to
>> work with it.  Unfortunately it seems that it needs some KPIs that is
>> only present in -HEAD so backporting is not trivial.
>>
> 
> hmmm... downloading CURRENT snapshots now.. lesse if this works... The
> mobo is one of those 'solid-capacitor' mobos (just mentioned on /.)
> from Gigabyte
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2295&ProductName=GA-965P-DQ6

Not sure if the snapshot contained the changes, though...  IIRC the
January snapshot is not released yet?

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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