svn commit: r211648 - head/sys/pci

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 23:42:19 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:25:16AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:27:33AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > On Aug 22, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > Author: yongari
> > > Date: Sun Aug 22 21:26:35 2010
> > > New Revision: 211648
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211648
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >  It seems some newer RTL8139 controllers provides only memory space
> > >  register mapping.
> > 
> > Something that I'm seeing more of in recent years is vendors putting descriptive information into PCI VPD attributes, and having their Windows and Linux drivers read these attributes and select behavior off of them instead of selecting based on PCI ID.  I don't have any RLT8139 specs to confirm that this would be the case here, but it might be something to consider looking into.
> > 
> 
> I also don't have data sheet for RTL8139 and I never saw rl(4)
> controllers which have VPD capability. But I think that's good idea
> to check. I've sent request mail to the user.
> Thanks for hints. :-)
> 

It seems the controller has no PCI VPD capability so I guess the
idea is not applicable to RTL8139 controllers.
Anyway, thanks a lot!


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