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Date:      Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:15:36 -0500
From:      Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
To:        Tanel Rebane <tanel@rebane.se>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: What is the relationship between Intel and FreeBSD in regards to igb(4)?
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On Dec 19, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Tanel Rebane wrote:
>=20
>> Kevin and Jack, thank you both for your replies. As you might have =
guessed,
>> I was asking because I'm looking into buying a whole bunch of NIC's =
and I
>> feel much more reassured now. Yet, there is one additional question, =
as I
>> mentioned, I couldn't find much in src/sys/dev/igb, is the source for =
igb
>> to be found elsewhere in the src?
> They are in
> src/sys/dev/e1000/
>=20

In case this is not clear, the sys/dev/e1000 folder contains three =
drivers:
 if_lem.c : legacy 1G cards
 if_em.c: older 1G cards
 if_igb.c: newer 1G cards

The rest of the files are common code shared among the three drivers.

-Andrew

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