Re: Latitude D800

Mike Hunter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike Hunter wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 25, "Jamie Bowden" wrote:
> 
> > > If no one else has done this yet, and I do this and it works, where's
> > > the best place to submit the PCI ID so it gets included into the
> > > driver for future generations?
> 
> > I went down this same road about 2 months ago.  I moved to 5.1-current
> > (October 3), whose bge driver supports the onboard nic out of the box.
> > It works great.
> 
> Okay, cool.  I'm trying to stay way from -current as I really don't have
> time to follow the mailing list.  I was just going to make the NIC go, and
> cvsup the latest RELENG_5_1 until 5.2 or 5-S was branched.  I don't mind
> editing the driver to recognize the chip after cvsup, and that it's
> already in -C means I don't need to worry about submitting it either.

I tried the same thing.  I tried dumping updated versions of the if_bge.c
file into the 5-release source, but it didn't work because there'd been an
API change that wasn't easy to hack around (I tired, but got a kernel
pannic.)
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