From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 17:40:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD3A106567C; Sat, 3 May 2008 17:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043838FC28; Sat, 3 May 2008 17:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m43HO1Ln019966; Sat, 3 May 2008 11:24:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <481C9FB1.4060407@samsco.org> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 11:24:01 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <2a41acea0805030014x244e1311v945e23266961193d@mail.gmail.com> <20080503114529.GD18958@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <2a41acea0805030939ua3022ceq7939aea0754e9e71@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0805030939ua3022ceq7939aea0754e9e71@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Kostik Belousov , "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: MFC of em/igb drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 17:40:06 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: >> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> >>> I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS >> > messages. >> > >> > The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and >> > MSIX, there will be more server type enhancements in that driver as I get the >> > time. >> > >> > The em driver now will be client oriented, the latest hardware support however >> > is for 82574, Hartwell, which is a really nice low cost PCIE dual-port adapter, >> > that actually also has MSIX. This first released support for it will >> > use 3 interrupt >> > vectors, one for TX, one for RX, and Link. The hardware actually supports 5 >> > vectors, so I am planning to add support for another RX and TX queue as my >> > schedule allows. >> > >> > Hartwell is also the first adapter that has IEEE 1588 PTP support, the driver >> > provides init and an ioctl interface to use that facility, I hope we >> > see software >> > support follow on soon. This is an early announcement, I am not sure on >> > exact dates for availability but they should be soon. >> > >> > As ever, issues and bugs should be sent to me. Cheers everyone! >> >> Besides the broken tinderbox, you did not connected the igb module to >> the module build. Is this intentional ? >> > > No, not intentional, both issues are now fixed, sorry, was tired yesterday > afternoon :) > Is it still true that support for the 575 moved from em to igb? If so, please put an entry in src/UPDATING about it and ask the re/docs team to make sure it's documented in the next release notes. Scott