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

"Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As for the question of why support multiple drivers for the same 
> > family of
> > cards, I'm not sure.  One argument for taking the FreeBSD versions 
> > is that
> > haiku then gains functional code for a wide range of cards, with 
> > hopefully
> > little maintenance required of the haiku devs.  On the other hand, 
> > you're at
> > the mercy of the actions of another project.
> Very good point. The FreeBSD driver would definitely be more mature
> than 810x being added as an afterthought to the 8169 driver.

That depends - if the driver works mostly out of the box, it seems to 
be a very similar chip. If it can be supported with minimal effort, 
there is a slight advantage that native drivers have, as FreeBSD 
drivers currently need an extra copy of the data passed into them.

Bye,
   Axel.

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