MFC of em/igb drivers

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat May 3 12:05:50 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS
> messages.
> 
> The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and
> MSIX, there will be more server type enhancements in that driver as I get the
> time.
> 
> The em driver now will be client oriented, the latest hardware support however
> is for 82574, Hartwell, which is a really nice low cost PCIE dual-port adapter,
> that actually also has MSIX. This first released support for it will
> use 3 interrupt
> vectors, one for TX, one for RX, and Link. The hardware actually supports 5
> vectors, so I am planning to add support for another RX and TX queue as my
> schedule allows.
> 
> Hartwell is also the first adapter that has IEEE 1588 PTP support, the driver
> provides init and an ioctl interface to use that facility, I hope we
> see software
> support follow on soon. This is an early announcement, I am not sure on
> exact dates for availability but they should be soon.
> 
> As ever, issues and bugs should be sent to me. Cheers everyone!

Besides the broken tinderbox, you did not connected the igb module to
the module build. Is this intentional ?
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