em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x]

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:53 -0700, Hector Lecuanda wrote:
> On 9/20/05, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:55 pm, Hector Lecuanda wrote:
> > > I have an Intel 82573 1000/PRO nic. I've seen that the 4.x branch
> > > supports this device, but 5.x does not.
> > >
> > > Is support for this device to be included in the near future?
> > > who can I contact regarding patches to make it work?
> > 
> > Erm, the em(4) driver is in 5.x.  Also, this mailing list is more for
> > questions about writing device drivers.  For more general questions try
> > either the questions@ or stable@ mailing lists.
> 
> Thank you, i will redirect my query to the appropriate mailing list.
> 
> Perhaps i should have explained that the em(4) driver in 4.x does
> include support for the Intel 82573 1000/PRO nic; while the one in 5.x
> does not. =(
> 
> Is it planned to merge the work on 4.x to 5.x and HEAD? 
> i tried to recompile the kernel with the 4.x sources for the em(4)
> driver, but obviously a lot has changed in the kernel, and as luck
> would have it, my attempt did not yield any success.

Support seems to be in HEAD and therefore 6.x already.  It looks like 5
has simply been missed.  I suspect all that is needed in the 5 branch
are the following changes, though that is untested:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2005-May/121728.html

I actually have one of the affected cards which I was planning to use in
a 5-STABLE machine in the (semi-)near future, thanks for pointing out
the issue!

Gavin