dev/ixgb and dev/ixgbe

[David Somayajulu]

Appreciate all your responses.
Thanks
david S.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb at freebsd.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:02 AM
To: freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org
Cc: David Somayajulu
Subject: Re: dev/ixgb and dev/ixgbe

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 4:23:53 pm David Somayajulu wrote:
> Hi All,
> I would really appreciate if someone can help me understand the difference
> between the above drivers from Intel. Is one of them for older hardware ?

I believe the short version is that ixgb(4) supports PCI-X 10gb adapters and
ixgbe(4) supports PCI-express 10gb adapters.

-- 
John Baldwin