Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:01:25 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Gleb Smirnoff" <glebius@freebsd.org>, "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "Prafulla Deuskar" <pdeuskar@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stale PCI ID Message-ID: <2a41acea0609151901v5f24643dv4cf550a5108e1052@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060915142330.GS27667@FreeBSD.org> References: <2a41acea0609111402g68741d86ib185e9bb77908658@mail.gmail.com> <20060915142330.GS27667@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/15/06, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:02:58PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > J> In the last attempt to merge community CVS with Intel internal code I > J> came across an issue I'd like to bring up. > J> > J> There is an ancient e1000 card, pci id 1000, an 82542, that we > J> don't have in our source, yet community cvs still does. Support > J> for this was removed from Linux long ago because the card did > J> not even work. > J> > J> I just had our test group hunt up one of these and test, and sure > J> enough, the driver recognizes it, but it does NOT pass traffic. > J> > J> Clearly no one is using these, at least not with STABLE :) and > J> as Intel does not want to support this I would recommend removing > J> the ID from the driver. > J> > J> Comments? > > It should be removed then. When merging the Intel versions of driver to > FreeBSD, I've noticed that some PCI IDs disappeared from vendor driver. > Since I couldn't obtain any comments from the release tarball, I decided > to be on safe side and leave these PCI IDs in the driver untouched. > > Which exact one are you speaking about? The E1000_DEV_ID_82542, that is > equal to 0x1000 is supported by em-6.1.4 vendor's driver. I AM the vendor :) And I believe that the 0x1000 ID crept into my code from merging with your tree :) Our test group came back to me and said 'hey, this is old and we don't think these boards even work' , so I told them to test, they did, and sure enough, it wouldnt even pass traffic. There is actually 3 different rev boards, and rumor has it that the last revision would work, but I think its better to just drop the thing. Cheers, Jack
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