On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read through the IGB driver, and it says 82575/6 only... which is the new > chip Intel is releasing on the cards this month 2 port > and october 4 port, but the chips are on some of the motherboards right now. > Why can't it also use the 82571 ? doesn't make any sense.. I haven't tried > it but just browsing the driver source > doesn't look like it will work.
The igb driver has been written to remove a lot of the cruft that has accumulated to work around deficiencies in earlier 8257x hardware. Although it supports "legacy" descriptor handling it has a new mode of descriptor handling that is ostensibly better. I don't have access to the data sheets for pre-zoar hardware so I'm not sure what it would take to support multiple queues on that hardware. -Kip _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
