[haiku-development] Re: rtl8111

  • From: Niels Sascha Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 22:06:18 +0200

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2012/8/4 Fredrik Modèen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> When it comes to network driver I usualy look there first, can be that
>>> they have fixed it over there but in there main branch..
>>
>> This chip revision seems supported on FreeBSD trunk and 9.1 branch
>> (RL_HWREV_8168E_VL).
>> Once 9.1 is released anytime this month [1], we can switch to it.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Jérôme
>>
>> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html
>>
>
> Seeing that their release is scheduled just prior to our R1/Alpha4
> freeze, perhaps we can have a task set to do an update of the drivers
> at that time...

Given that network drivers are very critical, I would suggest only
updating drivers that we don't have yet, or drivers that are currently
known to not be working on Haiku right now.

N>

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