What is the relationship between Intel and FreeBSD in regards to igb(4)?

[Jack Vogel]

Kevin is correct :)

When it comes to the man pages the problem is that even though we have
a docs group internally, they are not really independent, and doing
development
and support on the drivers keeps me fully occupied.. so the docs tend to lag
a bit.

If you have specific questions I am lurking about (even when I'm on vacation
like right now :)) and am happy to do my best to answer.

Happy Holidays!

Jack


On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tanel Rebane <tanel at rebane.se> wrote:
> > I'm trying to wrap my head around the igb(4) drivers. As I've understood
> > this driver is written by Intel and they distribute it from their
> Download
> > Center. The driver also seems to be included in the default installation
> of
> > FreeBSD (yet I can't seem to find anything relevant in src/sys/dev/igb).
> > However, when comparing the igb(4) man page (of FreeBSD) and the readme
> for
> > igb-2.2.3.tar.gz (of Intel) there are differences in supported devices.
> >
> > Am I right in suspecting that Intel does all the developing in-house and
> > then, from time to time, their source gets pushed/synced with the FreeBSD
> > source tree? Does that mean that current the man page for igb(4) lists
> > fewer supported devices because igb(4) on FreeBSD itself is out of date?
> If
> > that is the case, how often does FreeBSD pull new versions of igb from
> > Intel?
> >
> > Any input is greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
> Jack Vogel works for Intel and  writes and maintains the em and igb
> drivers. He has recently mentioned that the Intel distribution may, on
> occasion, lead the version committed to FreeBSD, but they are usually
> identical.
>
> An inconsistency between supported device types is probably an
> oversight. Jack as a commit bit and he is the one who updates both
> FreeBSD and the Intel distributions.
>
> Jack posted information on this a week or two ago, but I don't seem to
> find it, though I m sure it's in the archive, somewhere and the right
> search terms will find it.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
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