[etherlab-users] RTL8168

[Florian Pose]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:13:48PM -0800, Aaron Edsinger wrote:
> We're also very interested in getting a RTL8168  driver working but 
> don't have the skill set in-house. We've looked around to contract the 
> work out but with no luck yet (we have only modest resources). I'm 
> wondering if anyone on the list:
> 
> a) is willing to pool resources to fund the work
> b) would be willing to do the work given a fee
> 
> Of course we would contribute the results to the Etherlab package. 
> Florian, do you have an estimate for how long it would take a skilled 
> device coder to do this work?

this is the r8169 driver, isn't it? It indeed a very attractive driver to
support, because the Realtek Gigabit chipsets are used in many embedded PCs and
panel PCs I know. This list of supported chips is wide-spread:

PCI:

RTL8169
RTL8169s
RTL8110s
RTL8169sb/8110sb
RTL8169sc/8110sc
RTL8169sc/8110sc

PCIe:

RTL8168b/8111b
RTL8168b/8111b
RTL8101e
RTL8100e
RTL8100e
RTL8168b/8111b
RTL8101e
RTL8168cp/8111cp
RTL8168c/8111c
RTL8168c/8111c

I just looked into the code and it seems not as complicated as the Intel
drivers. I would estimate 1-2 days for getting a driver to work and another day
for testing and porting it to different kernel versions.

I'll speak to my boss if we can perhaps participate with development...

-- 
Best regards,
Florian

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