RE: Rrrrrr.....

From: Duncan Barclay (dmlb_at_dmlb.org)
Date: 05/27/03

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    Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:44:38 +0100 (BST)
To: (Bill Paul) <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>

    Dear Bill,

    On 27-May-2003 Bill Paul wrote:
    > Ok, I've gotten enough e-mail about this now that it's starting to be
    > annoying, so I'm going to nip this in the bud right now.

    If this was prompted by my private email earlier today then I am sorry
    to have been the straw that broke your back. Having searched the
    archives over the past couple of days and not finding too much hard
    information on this chipset I decided a short note to you might speed
    up the effort I am making in porting the Linux driver. Maybe I didn't
    make that clear. I have been posting to -current and -mobile on the
    topic over the past week.

    The information below confirming that the API is different is all
    that I asked for. I will carry on with my porting effort.

    Thanks

    Duncan

    > People have started asking me about the Broadcom 4400 series chips.
    > They have noticed that there's this "if_bge" driver with the word
    > "Broadcom" associated with it, and seem to think it may somehow be
    > coerced into working with the 44xx chipset, even though the documentation
    > implies nothing of the sort. So everybody listen up:
    >
    > *NO*, the 44xx chips are *NOT* the same as the 57xx chips. The 57xx
    > devices are 10/100/1000. The 44xx are 10/100 *ONLY*.
    >
    > *NO* they do *NOT* have the same programming API.
    >
    > *NO*, the bge(4) driver will *NOT* work with the 44xx chips. Ever. I don't
    > care how much you whine.
    >
    > *NO* I don't have any programming manuals for the 44xx chips and don't
    > know (or care) if I ever will.
    >
    > *NO* I will *NOT* port the Linux driver to FreeBSD.
    >
    > Is everyone clear on this now? Good, because any further questions
    > along these lines will be summarily ignored.
    >
    > -Bill
    >
    > --
    > =============================================================================
    > -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu
    > wpaul@windriver.com | Wind River Systems
    > =============================================================================
    > "If stupidity were a handicap, you'd have the best parking spot."
    > ============================================================================= 

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