From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 17:09:56 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 B26BF16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:09:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hlecuanda@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FD143D4C for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hlecuanda@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so274758nzk for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bvwg3XHYKmaxArFERrOwMrQSFAjFhjySp9G5U447H9QAww1YGE13nI+IkswQgHx0ga4hJK5kqpDqWZOZ8QDOUwTf09JZ1fO56MwOvUSvxURPINSPRAfNVvc68X2XxBfkJMfxhoAdKzWAIf42TIQYHurl0Bm7o5NdUqp5707EFN4= Received: by 10.54.51.46 with SMTP id y46mr3292217wry; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.116.17 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:09:54 -0700 From: Hector Lecuanda To: Gavin Atkinson In-Reply-To: <1127408334.97487.17.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200509201441.21121.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1127408334.97487.17.camel@buffy.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 Reply-To: Hector Lecuanda 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 17:09:56 -0000 On 9/22/05, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > 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 t= ry > > > 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. =3D( > > > > 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 > > How can I get the patches to update my source? i've been fiddling with cvsup and the web interface for CVS, but no luck.. hehe.. there must be a straightforward way and i cant seem to figure it out.. thx -- -Hector Lecuanda PGP Public Key / Llave Publica PGP: http://lecuanda.com/pgp_pubkey.asc http://lecuanda.com/pgp_pubkey.txt