From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 22:19:46 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 68F8F16A468 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265AD13C465 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:19:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 14so281888nzn for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:45 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rk20pdNnFkyDXWboxFrr3qqbsGU09/Vk3C4e3FazAYvo5+YUHb9Ql7afztqtWC4pK+zGsv1FVmtSTgnOPQsnmQ3K3Q4zVQDuAI0tcrPseTgA7J5Nrw0fQlZdfkUiwTSsaT+VzlZfKzwFVVqYT9+znOkvKlnmUj1sxUIB67Hmtyc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tOZGTdr3FLQAO3hI6ShNHi6rw0BRn/K3QZI+0c7HIKhbzjCtV4YMyNaZEsUmMzPB7DU5dS45q5S7ho+6uTT1a0kDezijc2tyPDNPSUyktxxDCtkMz73EKS26MipnVecsBqkktEE++QKDp7HIiBQnVePN+VgYMMCjFaqF7+LYLFg= Received: by 10.114.60.19 with SMTP id i19mr1030504waa.1180649984943; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.126.10 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0705311519l31dd95b3t81d70e321893f564@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:44 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Christian Brueffer" 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: 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 22:19:46 -0000 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. No, new driver is exclusively for the new PCI-E family, I suppose it would be possible to make a combined driver, but its such a different beast that its cleaner to just have a new driver. ixgb can stay as is, I own that driver inside Intel as well, but our FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :) Cheers, Jack