Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:33 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New driver coming soon. Message-ID: <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com>
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--2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 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 --=20 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 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGXxJpbHYXjKDtmC0RAktiAJ9WKeg8hdriUMzwJdxDGecLLA8FugCdE5G+ 9hDd5h2/shUMm7uNprOKNWI= =ePmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--
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