Re: Gigabyte Quad Royal SLI Agere Gigabit Network Chip Not Supported Under 2.6.x?

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 10:19:37 EST


On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:14:43PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:09 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Note: I do not have this motherboard currently, I am just looking at
> > possible motherboards with many PCI-e slots, this one would fit nicely,
> > however, it does not have a driver built-in to the kernel for the first
> > gigabit nic.
> >
> > README: Release Notes for ET1310 Linux Driver
> > v1.2.2 -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The ET1310 Linux Driver v1.2.2 is a driver which supports the ET1310
> > Customer Evaluation Board (Revision 1.1) This driver is subject to change
> > with subsequent releases.
>
>
> can you post a URL to the full driver source? I've not seen this driver
> yet, and chances are others haven't either...

Andi Kleen pointed me to it. Open source, standard vendor-written
crapola code that desperately needs cleaning.

Jeff



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