From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 18:33:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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 3DE8216A41F for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D767113C489 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so237541wra for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=g33UA1NYC7zFU7nIMlwT7dBYhAoavC242CE9Uuz4rSici0ZSKalliyls1AmTUx6N/aZr3wbOqSvWB2DETVhj7mC8YwfYe7XXhMgsOGuvRdcG3jidQG+MaAPlsWOhZSF7eLQmUxzBnYQ7q3+JgXzzou+ItOInrFwMWSNEVkxPsxE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QSNwBpwVMSGT2rgW3PQBTrDeEeAZeqVIsFpYqBlooWK2QSkc3KYcWLAIHhnEoL3pz1dZmBJ9R6opK7CKYXT+BQutuG7bfMnAIwu7lg2WSfPcg1u5qUlbqK6lXJ4q0YiTcekAn+V1gOtssvcKp3T3+Alw4awCt3mkNRH/k2+86tk= Received: by 10.78.178.5 with SMTP id a5mr624164huf.1180636422260; Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.107.13 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:42 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Christian Brueffer" , "Jack Vogel" , freebsd-net , "FreeBSD Current" In-Reply-To: <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: Subject: Re: New driver coming soon. 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:33:44 -0000 He stated previously that they are not compatible. On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:35PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > I wanted to let everyone know that I will soon have a > > new 10G driver to add to the tree. It is a PCI Express > > MSI/X adapter, I would like to call this driver 'ix' rather > > than follow Linux who are calling it 'ixgbe'. It is not > > backwardly compatible with ixgb. Any objections > > to the name? It would be nice to get this in before > > 7 becomes a RELEASE, what time frame do I > > have for that? > > > > Hi Jack, > > will the new driver support the hardware that ixgb(4) currently supports, > e.g. will it replace ixgb(4)? If yes, I'd like the name ixgb to stay. > > - Christian > > -- > Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org > GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc > GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D >