On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:35PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> I wanted to let everyone know that I will soon have a
> new 10G driver to add to the tree. It is a PCI Express
> MSI/X adapter, I would like to call this driver 'ix' rather
> than follow Linux who are calling it 'ixgbe'. It is not
> backwardly compatible with ixgb. Any objections
> to the name? It would be nice to get this in before
> 7 becomes a RELEASE, what time frame do I
> have for that?
>
Hi Jack,
will the new driver support the hardware that ixgb(4) currently supports,
e.g. will it replace ixgb(4)? If yes, I'd like the name ixgb to stay.
No, new driver is exclusively for the new PCI-E family, I suppose it
would be possible to make a combined driver, but its such a different
beast that its cleaner to just have a new driver.
ixgb can stay as is, I own that driver inside Intel as well, but our
FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has
been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :)
Cheers,
Jack
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