Marvell 8053 support?

[Mars G. Miro]

On 1/9/07, LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
> Mars G. Miro wrote:
> > Greetz!
> >
> > I happen to play w/ a newish Gigabyte mobo that has an on-board
> > Marvell 8053 GigE NIC. FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 i386, amd64 does not seem to
> > support it. Does anyone know if this is supported? I'm currently
> > taking a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/ , tho this
> > NIC isnt mentioned there at all.
>
> A quick glance at msk(4) on -CURRENT shows that 88E8053 is supposed to
> work with it.  Unfortunately it seems that it needs some KPIs that is
> only present in -HEAD so backporting is not trivial.
>

hmmm... downloading CURRENT snapshots now.. lesse if this works... The
mobo is one of those 'solid-capacitor' mobos (just mentioned on /.)
from Gigabyte http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2295&ProductName=GA-965P-DQ6

Thanks ;-)

> Cheers,
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> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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cheers
mars