MFC of em/igb drivers

[Jack Vogel]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
>

No, not intentional, both issues are now fixed, sorry, was tired yesterday
afternoon :)

Jack