From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 18:14:37 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 9871937B416; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:14:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fAT2Bg505686; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:11:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:11:42 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jonathan Lemon , msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver Message-ID: <20011128201142.A5668@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <200111290130.fAT1UUO04412@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20011129020501.55D1C3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <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 On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:05:01PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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. Really? This is the first I've heard; the feedback I received from ps was that the gx driver was able to sustain a higher load once I fixed an off-by-one error. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message