Subject: Re: bcm5754 support
To: Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org>
From: Sarton O'Brien <sobrien@roguewrt.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/21/2006 09:36:39
Just thought I would quickly note that the latest release of OpenBSD suppor=
ts=20
the bcm5754. There seems to be issues with the FreeBSD driver with incorrec=
t=20
detection, though this could have been rectified by now.

Unfortunately I can't switch OS as I am running Xen, unless I switch to=20
linux ...

Sarton

On Thursday 21 December 2006 06:24, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me if the bcm5754 gigabit ethernet adapter is
> > supported under current?
>
> It doesn't look like it, unfortunately; the bge_products array in
> the driver still doesn't mention the 5754.
>
> I've looked over in FreeBSD's repository, and the change to
> support 5754, 5755, and 5787 does not look terrifyingly large,
> but there's always the chance there's some earlier driver change
> we have not picked up that this change depends on...  If you
> want, I can probably make a patch for you to try?
>
> Regards,
>
> - H=E5vard