Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:06:36 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: david.somayajulu@qlogic.com Cc: freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dev/ixgb and dev/ixgbe Message-ID: <20091124.150636.1649828700.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <75E1A2A7D185F841A975979B0906BBA671F9B39870@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org> References: <75E1A2A7D185F841A975979B0906BBA671F9B39870@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org>
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David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com> writes:
: I would really appreciate if someone can help me understand the
: difference between the above drivers from Intel. Is one of them for
: older hardware ?
>From their respective man pages:
ixgb:
The ixgb driver provides support for PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters based
on the Intel 82597EX Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports
Transmit/Receive checksum offload and Jumbo Frames.
ixgbe:
The ixgbe driver provides support for PCI 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on
the Intel 82598EB Intel(R) Network Connections. The driver supports
Jumbo Frames, MSIX, TSO, and RSS.
Warner
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