From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 16:59:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE2216A422; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:59:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423A743D45; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:59:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8MGwtcN028519; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:58:55 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8MGwtgS071015; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:58:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j8MGwtOR071014; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:58:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: hlecuanda@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <200509201441.21121.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:58:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1127408334.97487.17.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:59:06 -0000 On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:53 -0700, Hector Lecuanda wrote: > On 9/20/05, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:55 pm, Hector Lecuanda wrote: > > > I have an Intel 82573 1000/PRO nic. I've seen that the 4.x branch > > > supports this device, but 5.x does not. > > > > > > Is support for this device to be included in the near future? > > > who can I contact regarding patches to make it work? > > > > Erm, the em(4) driver is in 5.x. Also, this mailing list is more for > > questions about writing device drivers. For more general questions try > > either the questions@ or stable@ mailing lists. > > Thank you, i will redirect my query to the appropriate mailing list. > > Perhaps i should have explained that the em(4) driver in 4.x does > include support for the Intel 82573 1000/PRO nic; while the one in 5.x > does not. =( > > Is it planned to merge the work on 4.x to 5.x and HEAD? > i tried to recompile the kernel with the 4.x sources for the em(4) > driver, but obviously a lot has changed in the kernel, and as luck > would have it, my attempt did not yield any success. Support seems to be in HEAD and therefore 6.x already. It looks like 5 has simply been missed. I suspect all that is needed in the 5 branch are the following changes, though that is untested: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2005-May/121728.html I actually have one of the affected cards which I was planning to use in a 5-STABLE machine in the (semi-)near future, thanks for pointing out the issue! Gavin