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Re: Final report on the Shuttle XPC (SN95G5v3) with an AMD X2 dual-core cpu in it, running DragonFly


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:21:11 +0100
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:47:52PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>       This is likely due to bugs in the NVidia ethernet driver, in particular
>       the NVNET blackbox object module that Nvidia supplies (for linux) and 
>       hasn't handed out the source for.   They seem to be making only a
>       half-hearted effort to suppot Open Source, which is really unfortunate. 
>       We really need the source code to properly support devices.

Actually, there is an Open Source driver with some support from Nvidia,
just noone found the time to extract specs from it and rewrite it for
BSDs.

Joerg



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