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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:29:28 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        ming fu <fming@borderware.com>
Subject:   Re: Intel 10GbE Driver committed
Message-ID:  <40D20D38.E9C92EF5@freebsd.org>
References:  <20040617182503.GA69063@hub.freebsd.org> <40D1E509.6070100@borderware.com> <40D2059B.2030408@he.iki.fi>

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Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> ming fu wrote:
> 
> > Does this one replace the em driver?
> >
> >
> It does not. However as far as I understand the semantics of the chips
> arenīt that much different so I wonder why another driver instead of
> adding to em.

>From reading both drivers it seems the 10GbE is far simpler than the
Gig driver.  Intel seems to have optimized their driver to slicon
architecture quite a bit.

-- 
Andre



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