FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 19 15:34:09 PST 2009


On Monday 19 January 2009 04:33 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> I found something interesting.  I have another RTL8169SC that works
> perfectly fine without the patch.  The hardware revision is
> 0x18000000.  After reading Linux driver (drivers/net/r8169c), I
> realised they use different masks for hardware revisions.  With
> their logic, non-working chip seems to be 0x98000000 (8110SCe)
> while working chip seems to be 0x18000000 (8110SCd) with
> 0xfc800000. FYI...

Now armed with the information, I made it work without reverting 
memory mapped I/O. :-)

http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.current2.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.stable2.diff

Jung-uk Kim


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