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Subject: Re: em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x]
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Mike Tancsa wrote:

> Hi,
>           The driver in RELENG_4 is essentially the same as in HEAD 
> and RELENG_6.  Someone backported the changes from the RELENG_6 
> version to 5.x and posted a link in the mailling list perhaps a month 
> or so ago.  Have a look through the archives for the patches.  
> However, I would suggest you go to RELENG_6 from 5.x.  6.x is a bit 
> faster on a number of counts and quite stable on the boxes we have it 
> running on. 


Do i need to do something special with gstripe when upgrading to 
RELENG_6 from RELENG_5?