From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 21:29:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7387516A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:29:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD20743D2D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:29:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 67459 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2004 21:29:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Jun 2004 21:29:28 -0000 Message-ID: <40D20D38.E9C92EF5@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:29:28 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petri Helenius References: <20040617182503.GA69063@hub.freebsd.org> <40D1E509.6070100@borderware.com> <40D2059B.2030408@he.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: ming fu Subject: Re: Intel 10GbE Driver committed X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:29:46 -0000 Petri Helenius wrote: > > ming fu wrote: > > > Does this one replace the em driver? > > > > > It does not. However as far as I understand the semantics of the chips > arenīt that much different so I wonder why another driver instead of > adding to em. >From reading both drivers it seems the 10GbE is far simpler than the Gig driver. Intel seems to have optimized their driver to slicon architecture quite a bit. -- Andre