Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:59:08 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Killer E2500 network driver Message-ID: <5d37763f-5cd1-ca42-e1f9-18e4804845ae@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <20180625150015.GC51569@FreeBSD.org> References: <d80c6445-a2d8-d04e-de56-9b3ee5d605a8@gjunka.com> <201806251431.w5PEVrZl098861@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180625150015.GC51569@FreeBSD.org>
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On 25/06/2018 15:00, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:31:53AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> On 24/06/2018 22:29, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>>> On 24/06/2018 17:16, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This list states that 10-Stable supports Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet >>>>>>> controller: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/hardware/support.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However, similar list for 11-Stable doesn't list that driver: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/hardware/support.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does it mean that the driver has been removed, and if yes then why? >>>>>> I believe it was a "added" feature in 10 stable, my 11 stable >>>>>> alc(4) man page lists the E2500 as supported. >>>>>> >>>>>> The alc device driver provides support for the following Ethernet >>>>>> controllers: >>>>>> >>>>>> o Atheros AR8131 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8132 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8151 v1.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8151 v2.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8152 v1.1 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8152 v2.0 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8161 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8162 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8171 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Atheros AR8172 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> o Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet controller >>>>>> >>>>> Yeah, listing drivers in alc shows support for that card. But the whole >>>>> alc driver isn't listed on the hardware support page for 11-Stable. So >>>>> wanted to check if it's an omission or it was removed deliberately. >>>> Which page are you looking at, it needs fixed. >>>> >>>> @x230a:/ # ls -lag /boot/kernel/if_alc.ko >>>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 84912 Jul 21 2017 /boot/kernel/if_alc.ko >>>> @x230a:/ # uname -UK >>>> 1101001 1101001 >>>> >>> The one listed in my email: >>> >>> https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/hardware/support.html >>> >>> alc(4) isn't listed there. >> Thank you, I should of reread the whole of the message before I >> asked you to repeat your self. >> >> I have checked the 11.0R 11.1R release notes at: >> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html >> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/relnotes.html >> >> and the infact do list alc(4) correctly, so I have sent an internal >> mail to Release Engineering so that we can track down why the >> release notes at >> https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/hardware/support.html >> are not reflecting this. >> >> I suspect this happened in a transition that recently occured >> to the repository location that the release notes are stored in/ >> generated from. >> > For 11.x, no, this is not the case. That change was only in 12-CURRENT, > and was not retroactively applied to stable branches due to a problem > that is outstanding with the hardware page generation for 12. > > That said, I'll try to track down where exactly this driver went missing > from the hardware page, but it is too late to fix it for the 11.2 > release. It can be noted in an errata entry, however, and a link to the > 11-STABLE page once it is fixed there. > > Glen > Great, thanks Glen and Rodney. Am I then to understand that this is a documentation issue, rather than the actual driver being removed?
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