Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:58:54 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: hlecuanda@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x] Message-ID: <1127408334.97487.17.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <d11141ae050920135369c05964@mail.gmail.com> References: <d11141ae05092010555bdeaa6@mail.gmail.com> <200509201441.21121.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <d11141ae050920135369c05964@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:53 -0700, Hector Lecuanda wrote: > On 9/20/05, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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
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