[haiku-development] Re: Ethernet drivers question

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:27:17 -0700

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I read on haiku-os.org website that Ethernet drivers were taken or
> adapted from FreeBSD (I assume not completely verbatim).
>
> My question is about the relation between Haiku and FreeBSD drivers for
> Ethernet adapters/chips.
>
> Motherboard in question is MSI Z77 MPOWER, and Ethernet chip is Realtek
> 8111E, which comes in many variants, but presumably only one on a given
> motherboard model.
>

It's here:

http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/rtl81xx/dev/re/if_re.c#n234

It's a lot easier to determine if a given chip is supported if you have the
vendor/deviceid, hwoever...

- Urias

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