Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:39:02 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: mike@karels.net, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Eric Joyner <ricera10@gmail.com>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding new media types to if_media.h Message-ID: <54EEE9B6.6090106@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <201502260258.t1Q2wKNK054143@mail.karels.net> References: <201502260258.t1Q2wKNK054143@mail.karels.net>
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Hi, I'm doing some work for Mellanox and we need some 100GBase types for coming hardware products too. I think we are not using the 32-bits of "ifm_media" well enough. Has it been discussed to add more bits to "IFM_NMASK" and have more ethernet types like IFM_ETHER_0, IFM_ETHER_1, IFM_ETHER_2, IFM_ETHER_3 .... Currently 5 IFM types are defined. If 2 more bits can be added to IFM_NMASK we have 5 bits total giving us 2**5 = 32 IFM types. Then it should be possible to define "(32 - 5) * 32 = 864" more ethernet types, which I think should be enough for now - or we add even one more bit to IFM_NMASK ? --HPS
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