[etherlab-users] RTL8168

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:16:42PM +0100, Florian Pose wrote:
> 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...

Any news on the status of a possible r8169 ethercat driver? I'll also
need support for this driver soonish.


Thanks, Uwe.
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