Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:39:12 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4] forcedeth |
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Attached is forcedeth: A new driver for the ethernet interface of the > NVIDIA nForce chipset, licensed under GPL. > > The driver was written without support from NVIDIA, it's the result of > a cleanroom development: > Carl-Daniel and Andrew reverse engineered the nvnet driver and wrote a > specification, Manfred wrote the driver based on the spec. Since the > driver has been available and working for a while now, Carl-Daniel > fitted some compat glue to make it compile under 2.4. > > This release it intended for developers, it's alpha quality: normal > network traffic could work, although slow due to incomplete interrupt > handling. It does work on two nForce 2 systems, nForce and nForce 3 > are untested.
Neat! I saw Manfred posted this driver for 2.6.x, as well. I'm glad soembody FINALLY got around to supporting this chipset under Linux.
Anyway, even with an alpha-quality driver, it's a driver that works where otherwise the kernel doesn't. So, after I review the driver, I would prefer to merge it soon rather than later. It gets users going, after all.
Has nVidia yelled yet? Since it's cleanroom, according to you, I don't see any problems at all...
Jeff
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