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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2008 13:39:31 -0700
From:      "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        "Scott Long" <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MFC of em/igb drivers
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0805031339n3ff84f37i3aa815168d14dd94@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <481C9FB1.4060407@samsco.org>
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On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
>
> Jack Vogel wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS
> > > >
> > >  > messages.
> > >  >
> > >  > The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue
> support and
> > >  > MSIX, there will be more server type enhancements in that driver as I
> get the
> > >  > time.
> > >  >
> > >  > The em driver now will be client oriented, the latest hardware
> support however
> > >  > is for 82574, Hartwell, which is a really nice low cost PCIE
> dual-port adapter,
> > >  > that actually also has MSIX. This first released support for it will
> > >  > use 3 interrupt
> > >  > vectors, one for TX, one for RX, and Link. The hardware actually
> supports 5
> > >  > vectors, so I am planning to add support for another RX and TX queue
> as my
> > >  > schedule allows.
> > >  >
> > >  > Hartwell is also the first adapter that has IEEE 1588 PTP support,
> the driver
> > >  > provides init and an ioctl interface to use that facility, I hope we
> > >  > see software
> > >  > support follow on soon. This is an early announcement, I am not sure
> on
> > >  > exact dates for availability but they should be soon.
> > >  >
> > >  > As ever, issues and bugs should be sent to me. Cheers everyone!
> > >
> > >  Besides the broken tinderbox, you did not connected the igb module to
> > >  the module build. Is this intentional ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > No, not intentional, both issues are now fixed, sorry, was tired yesterday
> > afternoon :)
> >
> >
>
>  Is it still true that support for the 575 moved from em to igb?  If so,
> please put an entry in src/UPDATING about it and ask the re/docs team to
>  make sure it's documented in the next release notes.
>
>  Scott
>

Ahhh yes, I forgot about that, will do Scott.

Jack



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