| To: | Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: A new driver for Broadcom bcm5706 |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 20 May 2005 17:09:38 -0400 |
| Cc: | Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, ffan@xxxxxxxxxxxx, lusinsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:07:17PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >Note that I only consider a very few of these items, highlighted below,
> >to be merge-stoppers. The rest are minor things that can be fixed up at
> >leisure.
>
> Out of curiousity: Is the intended goal to replace tg3 with
> this new driver eventually?
No, different hardware.
> I dig having the chipset manufacturer
> solidly behind the driver, like e1000!
Clearly you have been asleep :) Broadcom has been contributing actively
to tg3.
Jeff
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