Marvell 88E8053 lan controller support

[Brad]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:49:34AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:51:05AM -0700, othermark wrote:
>  > Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>  > 
>  > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, OxY wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >> hi!
>  > >>
>  > >> my question is when will this chip being supported by 6.x?
>  > > 
>  > > for x>1 maybe.
>  > > 
>  > >> or is it supported now and i didn't find the proper driver? :)
>  > > 
>  > > search freebsd-net archive of Jan 2006, posting from andre oppermann
>  > > and do not forget to read the follow-ups.
>  > 
>  > Just so other people don't have to do the rummaging, here's the link from
>  > gmane.org. 
>  > 
>  > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/79126/focus=79126
>  > 
>  > I too am hoping someone will step up to the plate and this support will be
>  > integrated into -current.
>  > 
> 
> I've tried their driver on CURRENT(It needs a minor modification to
> compile on CURRENT). But the driver didn't recognize link and even
> it panicked with numeros witness warnings when I enabled jumbo frame
> support.
> In addition it didn't attach for DGE530T. I think there driver is
> in experimental stage not for production use. In order to support
> Yukon II we need a documentation from Marvell.

It is *extremely* unlikely that you will ever see documentation for the
Yukon II from Marvell. At this point the only option is to reverse
engineer the existing driver and/or use the new Linux driver as a source
of information.