From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 17:33:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219FC37B419; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:33:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fAT1UUO04412; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:30:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:30:30 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200111290130.fAT1UUO04412@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message