Realtek network driver
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Oct 12 22:34:02 UTC 2008
In message: <e71790db0810120836s4fcccd95s64aa1ca610e8c562 at mail.gmail.com>
"Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania at gmail.com> writes:
: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Aleksandr Litvinov
: <free.dvig at gmail.com> wrote:
: > Hi,
: > Let's ask. Why in cvsweb existing a two drivers for network interface
: > realtek: rl & re? They can be united? What objective reasons prevent
: > to make?
:
: The drivers are for different card/chipset models. Please see
:
: man if_rl
: man if_re
:
: Summary:
:
: rl -- RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet device driver
: re -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E PCI/PCIe Ethernet
: adapter driver
The simpler driver was for a device that was fairly low end for its
time, so needed a lot of quirks and workarounds. The higher end
driver for re eliminates those quirks and uses more of the hardware
functions. There's some code shared between the two drivers.
Warner
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