Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:40:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, "Wilkinson, Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: I/OAT ... Coming Soon ? Message-ID: <200711151640.lAFGeCto021475@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <473BA656.7020508@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer writes: | Jack Vogel wrote: | > On Nov 14, 2007 5:01 PM, Wilkinson, Alex | > <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote: | >> Hi all, | >> | >> Curious, is I/OAT [http://www.intel.com/go/ioat/] coming to FreeBSD soon | >> ? | > | > LOL, I did a driver for the first version of I/OAT more than a year | > ago, submitted | > it and interest was half hearted. | > | > The driver needs updating and polishing yet, but interest being what it was | > it hasn't been a real high priority. | | I saw what I thought you called a "preliminary" driver. | There was discussion and I thought you got positive but | muted (along the lines of "nice.. when will there be hardware for it?") | and some discussion of how it fits in with TCP offload, but I don't think | that anyone said they didn't like the idea.. FWIW, several of us should have motherboards that support it now. For example the Dell PE29XX/PE1950 line now has support if you upgrade old machines to a newer BIOS and then turn it on in the BIOS setup. I'm not sure what em(4) cards support it. So I think hardware should be available now. At the time the PE29XX family BIOS did not support it :-( Doug A.
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