Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit cards
James Pearson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.etherboot.devel |
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Timothy Legge wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On >>Behalf Of James Pearson > > >>>Normally I would jump at the chance to write the driver. >> >>However at >> >>>the moment I am just able to keep up with email and try to >> >>catch up on >> >>>sleep. I already have two yukon based nics so maybe when >> >>my new son >> >>>gets me on a schedule I might be able to get a little work done. ;-) >> >>Has there been any progress with this etherboot driver? > > > Unfortunately, it has not been a priority for me. I still hope to work > on it but I am really hoping that someone beats me to it. If any one is > interested, I can probably arrange to get a card donated. Thanks - it's not a high priority for me, I can always use other booting methods or another PCI NIC - but it would be nice to make use the of the on-board NIC ... If anyone is interested in doing this, I notice that Stephen Hemminger has a rewrite of the sk98lin driver for 2.6 Linux kernels - which might be a better starting point than the SysKonnect Linux driver - especially as the code is all in one source + header file - see: http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/skge/ James Pearson ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix