[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Garrett D'Amore]

It sounds like this would be a good thing to fix in the phy driver in the MII layer.  Ask me if you need some hints... I am pretty familiar with the MII layer.  :-)

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On Jul 28, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:14:08PM -0500, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:
>> 
>>   If any of the BSDes have BSD licensed driver-code, I believe that can
>>   be relicensed CDDL, so it's acceptable.
>>   At least that is my understanding, please correct me if that is
>>   mistaken.
> 
> The Illumos atge driver seems to have been based on the Freebsd alc
> driver, although maybe only parts of it were.  I notice something
> curious in the Freebsd source:
> 
>    /*
>     * One odd thing is AR8132 uses the same PHY hardware(F1
>     * gigabit PHY) of AR8131. So atphy(4) of AR8132 reports
>     * the PHY supports 1000Mbps but that's not true. The PHY
>     * used in AR8132 can't establish gigabit link even if it
>     * shows the same PHY model/revision number of AR8131.
>     */
> 
> As far as I can tell, the Illumos source does not handle that case.
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
> 
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