[haiku-development] Re: RTL8101/8102 FreeBSD Driver
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:09:34 +0200 CEST
"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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