From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 22:39:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779E316A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9E343D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.19.149]) ([10.251.19.149]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 16 Nov 2005 14:39:37 -0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true Message-ID: <437BB528.3060203@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:39:36 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iasen Kostov References: <1132160415.48874.7.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <437B6F2A.6080800@elischer.org> <1132167383.48874.13.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <1132167383.48874.13.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Intel 82572EI X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:39:37 -0000 Iasen Kostov wrote: >On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:40 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >>Iasen Kostov wrote: >> >> >> >>> When will if_em support 82572EI (and 82572 in general). >>>I saw this >>>http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/cvs/2005-10/0235.html >>> >>> >>> >>>from which is this quote: >> >> >>>"Sync up to Intel's latest FreeBSD em driver which adds >>>support for the 82571 and 82572 PCI Express chips." >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I believe this is coming in a few weeks as I know intel is currently >>working on this. >> >> > >But the OpenBSD's cvs notice clearly states that the work is done. >And I've looked in their sources and (at first glance) it looks like >they are supporting it via "Intel's latest FreeBSD em driver" which I >can not explain (I've looked at intel's site and the driver there do not >support that cards ...) ;). > > > The latest Intel version is 3.2.18 I have a copy of it I got directly. but we are under NDA etc. It has a regular BSD copyright header on it so it looks like it should be ok for them to commit it but they may not be ready yet. it only claims to support 4.10+ and 5.4 so it is possible it doesn't support 6.0 or -current yet (there were a lot of changes in the -current one done by people other than Intel and maybe they are having a problem merging them back) That may be why they have not committed it yet. the ones I can find on the website are 1.7.41 and 1.7.35 the one in -current is 2.1.7