From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 18 16:23:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5CB37B403; Sat, 18 May 2002 16:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0271.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.16] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 179DY9-0001UX-00; Sat, 18 May 2002 16:23:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE6E263.77E337E0@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:23:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Bowman Cc: 'Andrew Gallatin' , "Kenneth D. Merry" , current@FreeBSD.org, net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new zero copy sockets patches available References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don Bowman wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin writes: > >> Kenneth D. Merry writes: > >> > > >> > I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against > -current > >> > from today (May 17th, 2002). > > > > Hi Ken, > > > > I'm glad to see that you're still maintining this! > > > > Assuming the mutex issues get sorted out, what do you think the odds > > are of getting this into the tree? The only possible issue I see is > > with the tigon firmware. Is the firmware you're using of the same > > vintage as what's in the tree now? Does it contain all the same > > fixes? > > As a related question, will this work with the broadcom gigabit (bge) > driver, which is the Tigon III? If not, what would it take to get > it working? Broadcom is a bit more anal about people having access to their firmware to make their products meet their design capabilities. Really annoying about the whole Broadcom/Alteon thing... To do the work, you'd have to do it on your own, after licensing the firmware, after signing an NDA. Unlike the rather public Tigon II firmware, the Tigon III doesn't have a lot of synergy or interesting work going for it. Most people doing interesting work tend to use Tigon II cards, because of this. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message