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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:30:30 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel gigabit driver 
Message-ID:  <200111290130.fAT1UUO04412@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/200111290042.fAT0gCA06193@mass.dis.org>
References:  <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/oppermann@pipeline.ch>

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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/200111290042.fAT0gCA06193@mass.dis.org> you write:
>> What happend at Intel? Their driver is even released under the
>> BSD license! (and the Linux one under the GPL)
>
>Many Intel software products are released under a BSD-like license.
>
>Consider the ACPI CA codebase we use.
>
>> > The driver will be committed to -CURRENT first and MFC'ed to
>> > -STABLE later.
>> 
>> Really? What about the gx driver?
>
>The 'gx' driver was committed so that Jonathan's code would be on
>record, since he'd spent so much time and effort on it.  Testing so
>far has indicated that the Intel driver is generally superior, but

No, sorry.  Testing has shown no such thing; the performance of
the drivers is equivalent, or even that gx has a slight edge.


>The Intel driver will be the preferred driver for these cards.

That still is under discussion.
-- 
Jonathan

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