From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 18:10:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B017C1065689 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 18:10:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EBD8FC1B for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 18:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds12 with SMTP id ds12so455287wgb.31 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=SpzmdEG63NopESO6uxuRIbhBgNWuEFymP4gupiyFGhE=; b=KUoJKE82q3Ja7QtUrrGU/4FEFPhf6QRWzc9RgoOPxMaG44arnMarGpdt/NrmN+h8ks 5wTalyQHz8CIU/sdYamYGrRPSR5EZ1O6oFzbc8vJPRruztKSUpGiRmlk8+gIbN2hHUud CJImLDWTmgrc4UzjfB9Fow7apHyxWuq/kuR+7yq+7no6P/f5nzQkFnYBtzmIdaQJ6Lqg 8TN59dcowqcbtpUsy6dYqPavpHuuRgsCNTJgRSlf0bQmwcJmzRvD+8BOMmTB/VDOiPP0 vcNTkzgD0ev8j+zxv7CzGTvZj4MB3iS26eH2l/JMGKAI3uKh825X1gMXXjDYGnpQYDMa iLbQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.24.35 with SMTP id r3mr7002746wif.7.1335895826185; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.7.103 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201204251241.04752.zec@fer.hr> <87vckg84gk.fsf@alien8.de> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:10:26 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Sami Halabi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina Subject: Re: Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 18:10:27 -0000 Just so everyone is clear, the ixgbe driver in 8.3 has X540 support, as well as HEAD, stable/9 has not yet been MFC'd, its on my 'todo' list. Jack On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > Funny, since I own the driver, one would think I'd know :) > > If you go look in the source directory for ixgbe you'll find a couple files > in there: ixgbe_x540.[ch]. That should be a clue... > > Jack > > > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Sami Halabi wrote: > >> x540has no fbsd driver >> >> Sami >> >> >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >>> The 82599 is and has been officially supported for some time, the manual >>> tends to lag, I will try and get it updated. In fact, given a choice I >>> would always >>> go with the 599. And yes, the X540 should be stable, its just not yet >>> being >>> used as much yet. >>> >>> Jack >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Julian Stecklina wrote: >>> >>> > Thus spake Marko Zec : >>> > >>> > > Hi all, >>> > > >>> > > Although the ixgbe driver appears to have code for both 82598 and >>> 82599 >>> > > chipsets, the manual page stil lists only 82598 based cards as >>> officially >>> > > supported. Does anybody have first-hand experiences with 82599 based >>> > cards >>> > > and recent versions of the ixgbe driver (-CURRENT, 9.0, 8.3)? >>> > >>> > We recently bought one: >>> > >>> > ix0@pci0:34:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 >>> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 >>> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >>> > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' >>> > class = network >>> > subclass = ethernet >>> > ix1@pci0:34:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 >>> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 >>> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >>> > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' >>> > class = network >>> > subclass = ethernet >>> > >>> > It's currently used on 9.0 for benchmarking another box. Never had any >>> > problems. Can someone say whether the X540 support in CURRENT is >>> stable? >>> > >>> > Regards, Julian >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >>> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >>> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sami Halabi >> Information Systems Engineer >> NMS Projects Expert >> >> >