Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:40 +0100 From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net> To: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers Message-ID: <1777A05B-B3E8-42A6-BC88-E5DA2DBB650C@patpro.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221090352.GA6040@harmless.hu> References: <66621B3A-7879-4DE8-B4D5-5A46B91BAC5E@patpro.net> <20071221090352.GA6040@harmless.hu>
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On 21 d=E9c. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: >> I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the =20 >> Intel PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: >> I was wondering: is there any point in running those drivers =20 >> instead of the freebsd ones, performance wise of course. > AFAIK these are the drivers that can be found in the base system as =20= > well. > Intel's drivers are pretty fine, there's no need to write new ones. I've made a quick comparison between /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/e1000phy.c =20 (freebsd 6.2) and e1000_phy.c (as part of the em-6.6.6.tgz provided =20 by Intel), and the too files are quite different. But well, I'm not a developer, and that's probably not significant. regards, patpro=
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