Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:22:09 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: dmanesajian@nextgig.com (Daniel Manesajian) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: em and gx drivers Message-ID: <20020202002209.A2D4D37B430@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEBIEGNEOADOFPNEPJJEEGNCKAA.dmanesajian@nextgig.com> from Daniel Manesajian at "Feb 1, 2002 03:55:16 pm"
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> Hi guys, > > I'm moving from the wx driver to either the gx or em driver. I haven't seen > a lot of traffic about either and I was wondering what people's experiences > have been like. Has any one done performance tests? How do the three drivers > stack up? Any negative points on either driver? > > Also, are both drivers still being actively maintained (i.e. is one going to > become the official driver)? Glancing through the source, it seems gx > doesn't support the 82544 controller yet, and I was wondering if this in the > works. Not to detract from Jonathan Lemon's efforts in writing the gx driver, but from what I've heard, I suspect your best option right now is the em driver. This one was actually written by Intel engineers and has undergone testing in their labs. And as you note, it should support all of the existing Intel gigE controllers. (If it doesn't support the 82544, I'd be surprised.) The em driver is supposed to be maintained by Intel. An Intel engineer has commit access to the tree, and should hopefully be keeping it up to date. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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