driver for broadcom 57711E

[David Christensen]

> > > >  Hi! I really need broadcom 57711E driver for my FreeBSD 8.0
> i386.
> > > > Does anybody have this driver already?
> > > >
> > > > P.S. Also wanted David Christensen who had previously tried to
> write a driver.
> > >
> > > LOL. Welcome to the club :-)
> > >
> > > ( Though I'm afraid David, or Broadcomm, respectively, are
> incommunicado
> > > on this particular issue. )
> > >
> > Actually David is very responsive but I think he is somewhat busy
> > for other work. For example, I had been working with David to
> > support next generation Broadcom controller that would be widely
> > available in next year.
> > Personally I haven't have chance to try bnx(4) which was written
> > by David to support BCM57710/57711/57711E controllers so I don't
> > know how well it works. As David said long time ago, one of issue
> > was testing wide variety of PHYs used in controller such that it
> > made hard to release the driver.
> > David, would you clarify current status of bnx(4)?
> 
> Actually the driver name was bxe(4).

Sorry for the delays on keeping the community updated on the
status of the bxe(4) driver.  If someone is willing to review
the driver and help us address some of the style(9) violations
in the source code, I'll commit the code within two weeks.

Please email me off-list if you're able to help.

Dave