Bug 834576

Summary:	net-misc/r8125: need new vendor driver for Realtek 2.5G NICs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karlson2k <k2k>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Karlson2k <k2k>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24250 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736400
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Karlson2k 2022-03-04 13:07:34 UTC

Realtek has vendor driver for RTL8125 chips.
Vendor driver is more advanced than kernel in-tree driver and probably more stable.

Gentoo already has ebuild for older NICs: net-misc/r8168

Arch GNU/Linux has package for this r8125 dirver: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/r8125-dkms.

Please, add the new ebuild for r8125. RSS features are very useful for higher network speeds.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Karlson2k 2022-03-04 13:08:41 UTC

Older Gentoo bug for the same driver: https://bugs.gentoo.org/736400
Closed as WONTFIX.

Comment 2 Karlson2k 2022-03-04 18:05:16 UTC

I'm ready to be a proxied maintainer for this ebuild.

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-03-08 13:18:07 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1cc56fae05662314257f70a7a768ab82737ca31a

commit 1cc56fae05662314257f70a7a768ab82737ca31a
Author:     Karlson2k (Evgeny Grin) <k2k@narod.ru>
AuthorDate: 2022-02-18 13:13:14 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-03-08 13:17:58 +0000

    net-misc/r8125: new package for Realtek r8125 driver
    
    This package is vendor drivers for Realtek RTL8125 network cards.
    While Linux kernel has support for these card, vendor driver provides
    more features, which are not available in in-tree driver.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/736400
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834576
    
    Signed-off-by: Karlson2k (Evgeny Grin) <k2k@narod.ru>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24250
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-misc/r8125/Manifest              |  1 +
 net-misc/r8125/metadata.xml          | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 net-misc/r8125/r8125-9.007.01.ebuild | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+)