[top-post] Adding debian-kernel@lists.debian.org in the event that my first message unintentionally made it to dust-bin. :)
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 04:09:00PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > Salvatore, > > Hello! I do not think we have met before, but I'm currently working > with Michael Chan et al at Broadcom on drivers for our network cards and > wanted to write to ask a quick question or two regarding adding a > feature to the Buster (4.19-based) kernel. > > Broadcom submitted ~20 patches to 4.20 that added support for a new > family of 100G adapters (Thor/575xx) to the bnx_en driver. Along with a few > bugfixes we expect that as many as 30 patches would need to be added to Buster > to have full support for Thor (including bugfixes). > > I noticed that there are more than this many patches to the ena driver > already included in the buster kernel. This makes it feel like this > request is not out of scope for Buster. The questions are: > > 1. Am I correct that adding new hardware support in this manner would > not be too much for Buster? > > 2. Would you prefer if we did the backport, or would it be better if we > provided a list of the upstream commit IDs and the kernel team would > want to backport? We would also want to test this, so we are happy to perform > and test the backport. > > 3. Shall we file a bug at bugs.debian.org when are are ready or are there > better ways to submit a feature request? > > Thanks for the time. > > Take care, > > -andy >
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