Dell XPS 1530 - Network card issue - Marvell 88E8040

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:25:17PM +0100, Chris Stromblad wrote:
 > (I originally addressed this to the freebsd-hardware, but got no response, 
 > so please forgive me for reposting this here!)
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > It appears as if the Marvell 88E8040 is not yet supported by FreeBSD and
 > specifically the msk(4) driver. I would just like to know if there are any
 > plans on adding support for the above mentioned NIC.
 > 

I'd like to add support 88E8040(Yukon2 FE+ PCIe Fast ethernet
controller). I don't think just adding a PCI id is sufficient
to make it work but it would be even better if you can send me
the 'pciconf -lcv' output to me.

I think one of the serious issue of Yukon2 FE+ is introduction
of new descriptor format and additional bugs for the chip/phy
as other variants. Since there are no documentation for
controller/phy hardware, it may take longer than you would
expect to see a working/stable driver. I guess disabling TSO and
checksum offload may make it possible to write a minimal driver
for the hardware. I'll let you know when I have code to test.
I cannot say the code written by me would work as I don't have
that hardware.

 > Normally I wouldn't even bother asking, and just shrug and say, tough luck
 > they don't support it... next distribution. Thing is, I really, really
 > like FreeBSD. I'm kind of a GNU/Linux guy, but I've never managed to
 > settle for a distribution and have moved from one to another, never quite
 > finding something that works with me, and not against me.
 > 
 > Then I tried FreeBSD, actually I just read much of the available
 > documentation and I was "converted". _THIS_ is how documentation should be
 > written; clear, concise, to the point and most of all, USEFUL! Thank you!
 > 
 > So, my point is that I really want this to work out. I'm willing to give
 > as much time as necessary to get this driver working. Whether it's just a
 > little Device_ID change in the source, I don't know. However, if anyone is
 > up for helping me getting this to work, I'll provide whatever information
 > I can.
 > 
 > Many thanks, and keep up the fantastic work on the FreeBSD operating system.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Christoffer Str?mblad
 > 
 > PS: I've tried 8.0-CURRENT (snapshot from 27122007), 7.0-RC1 and FreeBSD 
 > 6.3, no luck.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon