Re: New driver coming soon.

He stated previously that they are not compatible.

On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:35PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> I wanted to let everyone know that I will soon have a
> new 10G driver to add to the tree. It is a PCI Express
> MSI/X adapter, I would like to call this driver 'ix' rather
> than follow Linux who are calling it 'ixgbe'. It is not
> backwardly compatible with ixgb. Any objections
> to the name? It would be nice to get this in before
> 7 becomes a RELEASE, what time frame do I
> have for that?
>

Hi Jack,

will the new driver support the hardware that ixgb(4) currently supports,
e.g. will it replace ixgb(4)? If yes, I'd like the name ixgb to stay.

- Christian

--
Christian Brueffer chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx brueffer@xxxxxxxxxxx
GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc
GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D

_______________________________________________
freebsd-net@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • [git patches] net driver updates for .27
    ... delete non NAPI code from the driver. ... ixgb: maybe stop tx port missed a piece ... Each descriptor is 16 bytes. ... -behavior after modifying this register may be undefined (possibly errors of some ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Nvidia MCP55 Machine reboots on ixgb driver load
    ... (the RHAS 4.4.03 kernel also reboots with the ixgb load), ... loading the driver with debug does not appear to produce ... have tried the open source intel driver on RH4.4, ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Nvidia MCP55 Machine reboots on ixgb driver load
    ... (the RHAS 4.4.03 kernel also reboots with the ixgb load), ... loading the driver with debug does not appear to produce ... The basic steps are the I load ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver
    ... I have a pair of NICs and multiprocessor machines to ... finally someone with ixgb hardware :-) Would you be interested ... GIANT from this driver at the moment. ...
    (freebsd-net)
  • Re: New driver coming soon.
    ... On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer wrote: ... > new 10G driver to add to the tree. ... what time frame do I ... I'd like the name ixgb to stay. ...
    (freebsd-current)