Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T

[Matthew Dharm]

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I know, jumping in at this late-stage is bad form... but if we're talking
about the Intel 82543GC Gigabit MAC, why doesn't someone just use the
FreeBSD if_wx.c driver as a starting point?

It took me a while to find, as they refer to it as the LIVENGOOD instead of
the 82543, but the PCI ProductID values seem to match...

Matt

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:29:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > As I see it, if Shawn has permission to freely distribute the specs,
> > he can send a copy to Alan Cox for forwarding to the relevant driver
> > developers. However, if he has to sign an NDA to get them, they're
> > useless...
> >=20
> > Alan: Am I right in assuming this?
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> It depends on the NDA. Lots of vendors NDA their docs because they give e=
nough
> info to cloen the hardware, or explain how to fab the chip, or include pe=
rsonal
> details of employees .. and a million other reasons. Many sensible, many =
quite
> daft.
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> But in my experience you have a better chance of getting a straight answe=
r out
> of a politician than intels networking folks. Maybe they have reformed
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> Alan
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