svn commit: r184870 - in head/sys: amd64/conf boot/forth conf dev/ale i386/conf modules modules/ale

[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:52:06AM +0000, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> Author: yongari
> Date: Wed Nov 12 09:52:06 2008
> New Revision: 184870
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184870
> 
> Log:
>   Add ale(4), a driver for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe ethernet
>   controller. The controller is also known as L1E(AR8121) and
>   L2E(AR8113/AR8114). Unlike its predecessor Attansic L1,
>   AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 uses completely different Rx logic such that
>   it requires separate driver. Datasheet for AR81xx is not available
>   to open source driver writers but it shares large part of Tx and
>   PHY logic of L1. I still don't understand some part of register
>   meaning and some MAC statistics counters but the driver seems to
>   have no critical issues for performance and stability.
>   

Yay! thanks for yet another great driver Pyun.