On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:47:54AM -0700, Will Set wrote: [...] > Hi Jeff, > I think the main idea here is to get a test of the e1000e driver, to see if > it works on the hardware, > before the updates for Debian stable are released, in 3 months or so.
Actually this will happen in about a month (the exact timetable is not set yet). > It seems that there has been no response from anyone that has the new intel > e1000e gigabit nic yet to verify Ben's work on the driver. There has been *some* response from users. I briefly tested on my own laptop which uses e1000e for the LAN port. > Any, testing of hardware using the e1000e driver found > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ here > or development documentation intel is willing to provide for e1000e and/or > other "newer released" intel hardware ie: igb > would help Debian speed it's release of updates to the Debian Stable Release > in 3 months or so. So far as I'm aware, there is already good hardware documentation, but I'm not interested in it. My concern is with the interaction between the driver and the network stack, which has changed a bit since Linux 2.6.32. Since I maintain a network driver myself, I believe I under- stand the changes pretty well and have correctly adjusted the driver code, but I am not certain. I posted a general request for testing and some suggested tests for network drivers here: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/testing-new-hardware-support-for-debian-602.html Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110830150129.gc2...@decadent.org.uk
