Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:44 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Christian Brueffer" <brueffer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New driver coming soon. Message-ID: <2a41acea0705311519l31dd95b3t81d70e321893f564@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@freebsd.org> 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
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