From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 17:59:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F08016A41A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [130.225.244.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2792C13C46A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (unknown [192.168.61.3]) by phk.freebsd.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9173E17104; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l93HxuAj052870; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:59:56 GMT (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Jack Vogel" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:52:43 MST." <2a41acea0710031052w40c10cabjf923803ba23b2546@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:59:56 +0000 Message-ID: <52869.1191434396@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:59:55 -0000 In message <2a41acea0710031052w40c10cabjf923803ba23b2546@mail.gmail.com>, "Jack Vogel" writes : >I am adding support into the em driver for PTP, what I would prefer doing is >to add interface capability support: IFCAP_TSYNC or something like that. >The driver will then enable/disable the feature. > >Are there other vendor's hardware providing this support such that a >net/if.h capability would be justified? > >There was also some other defines that are needed, an ethertype >for instance, I forget what it was offhand but I did notice it wasn't >there yet. When I talked to HP's licensing department, there were a $1k licensefee for anything IEEE1588 related and their message was that even if the FreeBSD foundation got such a license, the users would still have to have one as well if they compiled the source code or some such nonsense. If this has all been taken care of: Go for it! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.