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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:27:03 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Thomas Skibo <ThomasSkibo@sbcglobal.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r279828 - head/sys/dev/cadence
Message-ID:  <1425994023.33324.9.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150310102525.GU17947@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201503092239.t29MdxUo089384@svn.freebsd.org> <20150310102525.GU17947@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 13:25 +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:39:59PM +0000, Ian Lepore wrote:
> I> Author: ian
> I> Date: Mon Mar  9 22:39:58 2015
> I> New Revision: 279828
> I> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279828
> I> 
> I> Log:
> I>   Use the new ifnet API.  Also, allocate bus_dma_maps as needed instead of
> I>   pre-allocating them all at start-up.  Also fix a bug in cgem_stop(); before,
> I>   it wasn't properly unloading dma maps due to a cut-and-paste error.
> 
> Ian, the new ifnet API isn't the last word in ifnet API. :)
> 
> Since you are already into that, I'd appreciate if you look
> into projects/ifnet branch and convert cgem(4) to it.
> 
> As examples, you can look at msk(4), bge(4), xl(4) and vtnet(4)
> in the branch.
> 

Hrm, I know nothing about the cgem driver and very little about ethernet
drivers in general (despite having "written" one, mostly by cut and
paste from working drivers).  I was committing this on behalf of a
non-committer contributor who maintains the Xilinx/Zynq arm code.

I just noticed I forgot to add to the commit... 

 Submitted by:  Thomas Skibo

I'll add him to the CC on this, in case he has time to work up a
patchset for the projects/ifnet branch for you.

-- Ian





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