Greetings, I'm casting a wide net in cc, try to keep the noise minimal but we need some input from a variety of HW vendors.
I have heard from several vendors the need for a NIC configuration tool. Chelsio ships a cxgb/cxgbetool in FreeBSD as one example. There is precedence for some nod toward a basic unified tool in Linux ethtool. >From your perspective, 1) What are the common requirements? 2) What are specialized requirements? For instance as a full TCP offload card Chelsio needs things others wont 3) What should it _not_ do? Several of you have experience doing Ethernet driver dev on many platforms so we should attempt to avoid repeating past design mistakes. I expect we can achieve some level of inversion so the device specific code can live close to the driver and plug into the ethctl framework. It should be general enough to add completely new top level commands, so vendors can implement HW specific features. On the other hand, we should attempt to hook into common core for features every NIC provides, with a focus on iflib. I will fund Matt Macy to do the overall design and implementation. Regards, Kevin Bowling, on behalf of Limelight Networks for this effort _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
