From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 18: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA34C37B405; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAT251M83253; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D1C3808; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver In-Reply-To: <200111290130.fAT1UUO04412@prism.flugsvamp.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:05:01 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011129020501.55D1C3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Jonathan Lemon wrote: > 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. Well, the experience on irc.snoogans.org begs to differ. The Intel driver sustained much higher rates under attack than what it took to make gx fall over completely. > >The Intel driver will be the preferred driver for these cards. > > That still is under discussion. More to the point, let the respective drivers stand on their own merits. There is no need to "decide" for one or the other. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message