[haiku-development] Re: RTL8101/8102 FreeBSD Driver

"Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > The 8102E, at least, works with the rtl8169 driver, if you skip PHY
> > initialization. Would it be beneficial to include yet another 
> > driver?
> > With rtl8169 networking with the 8102E appears to be completely
> > stable, as I have not had an issue with it yet.
> I don't mean "this works for me let's drop it", just to clarify..
> I mean, why introduce another driver for a class of devices that can
> be supported with a couple modifications to an existing driver;
> much like Linux has different PHY initialization for different MAC
> versions, and skips initialization for unknown MAC versions-
> They're similar hardware, after all.

If you can make it work, that would be the preferred way, indeed. But 
someone actually has to do the changes, and make them available for 
everyone.

Bye,
   Axel.

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