From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 20:55:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721B316A417 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: from smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D625C43D7D for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: (qmail 73713 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2006 20:55:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.20?) (ke.han@redstarling.com@218.79.197.214 with plain) by smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2006 20:55:50 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: ke han Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 04:55:50 +0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Subject: em driver testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:55:56 -0000 According to the 6.2-beta3 announcemetn, there are improvements to the em driver. "The most important of the things that have been worked on is the driver for em(4). " I have a Sun X4100 which uses Intel ethernet. I would like to install amd64 6.2beta3 on this server and put it through some tests. But I have no idea what tests to run or how to run them. Can someone provide some pointers? I am happy to post my findings. thanks, ke han