Jack, On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:01:25PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: J> >J> In the last attempt to merge community CVS with Intel internal code I J> >J> came across an issue I'd like to bring up. J> >J> J> >J> There is an ancient e1000 card, pci id 1000, an 82542, that we J> >J> don't have in our source, yet community cvs still does. Support J> >J> for this was removed from Linux long ago because the card did J> >J> not even work. J> >J> J> >J> I just had our test group hunt up one of these and test, and sure J> >J> enough, the driver recognizes it, but it does NOT pass traffic. J> >J> J> >J> Clearly no one is using these, at least not with STABLE :) and J> >J> as Intel does not want to support this I would recommend removing J> >J> the ID from the driver. J> >J> J> >J> Comments? J> > J> >It should be removed then. When merging the Intel versions of driver to J> >FreeBSD, I've noticed that some PCI IDs disappeared from vendor driver. J> >Since I couldn't obtain any comments from the release tarball, I decided J> >to be on safe side and leave these PCI IDs in the driver untouched. J> > J> >Which exact one are you speaking about? The E1000_DEV_ID_82542, that is J> >equal to 0x1000 is supported by em-6.1.4 vendor's driver. J> J> I AM the vendor :) And I believe that the 0x1000 ID crept into my code J> from merging with your tree :) Our test group came back to me and J> said 'hey, this is old and we don't think these boards even work' , so J> I told them to test, they did, and sure enough, it wouldnt even pass J> traffic.
AFAIK, the mega merge with FreeBSD code was made in version 6.0.5. But the E1000_DEV_ID_82542 is also present in em-3.2.18 and em-5.1.5 drivers. That's why I am unsure that it is the one that needs to be removed. J> There is actually 3 different rev boards, and rumor has it that the J> last revision would work, but I think its better to just drop the thing. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
