Changeset 384 for freebsd-rtl-driver/README

Timestamp:

Feb 5, 2015, 7:34:52 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Rick van der Zwet

Message:

Innitial import attempt of if_rtl(4)

Location:

freebsd-rtl-driver

Files:

• . (copied) (copied from freebsd-mos-driver )
• README (modified) (1 diff)

freebsd-rtl-driver/README

@@ -1 +1 @@
 EXPERIMENTAL Beta code, use with care. Active development.
 
-Status: It has been committed to HEAD (r218729).
-Target: Get it RELENG_8 to make it into release.
+Status: Development
+Target: Get it on 10-STABLE to make it into release.
+
+No datasheets available after requests, I quote: ``` Due to company policy, we
+only release Datasheet to our ODM/OEM ( which have signed a company to company
+NDA with Realtek ). Please follow the linux source code for porting, thanks.
+"""
+
+Linux reference driver: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
 
 
 == INTRO ==
-The FreeBSD if_mos.c driver is based on various different sources:
-The vendor provided driver at the following URL:
+The FreeBSD if_rtl.c driver is based on various different sources:
+
+The vendor provided information at the following URL:
 http://www.moschip.com/data/products/MCS7830/Driver_FreeBSD_7830.tar.gz
 
-Mixed together with the OpenBSD if_mos.c driver for validation and checking
-and the FreeBSD if_reu.c as reference for the USB Ethernet framework.
+Mixed together with the Linux r8152.c driver for validation and checking
+and the FreeBSD if_rue.c as reference for the USB Ethernet framework.
 
 == COMPILE & RUN ==
- 1. Make sure you got the FreeBSD source (RELENG_8) checked out in /usr/src
+ 1. Make sure you got the FreeBSD source checked out in /usr/src
  2. make load
  3. Driver ready for use (device found is ue0)