From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 18:37:38 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 3518616A468 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E188613C44C for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 18:37:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from circe ([134.130.3.36]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JIX000KZ4DNJ230@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de>; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id l4VIMYHn009310; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:34 +0200 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1HtpJK-0004qx-Le; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:23:46 +0200 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 60B293F40A; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:22:33 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> To: Jack Vogel Message-id: <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r" Content-disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-net , FreeBSD Current 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 18:37:38 -0000 --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--