On 6/11/15 14:20 , Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> On Jun 11, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 6/11/15 12:37 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Robert Mustacchi wrote: >>>> >>>> In general, illumos should just boot up on those new CPUs just fine. >>>> However, there are some ixgbe updates we're going to need to do for the >>>> 10 GbE devices as they are a new chipset. However, the 1 GbE should work. >>> >>> I assume that Joyent (or some other interested party) is already >>> planning to do the updates for the new 10 GbE interfaces. Is that a >>> fair assumption? >> >> Yeah, I was planning on it, though I'm not quite sure if I have the >> specific new parts yet or not or when samples will arrive, so if you or >> others in the community have pieces to test against, that'll help me out. > > These Fortville interfaces are very interesting to us. We have a contractor > (OmniOS) scheduled to work on it. I recommend you coordinate efforts there. > (Frankly I’d love to do this work myself, but I’m up to my eyeballs in > userland stuff these days.)
Most of these aren't Fortville (the 40 GbE or 4x10 GbE), but are instead the X550 and similar adapters which are more straightforward updates to ixgbe instead of a new driver with a lot of fun firmware to talk to, which also makes the process of adding support for them much simpler. > (Btw, I suppose at some time I ought to figure out updating our GLDv3 > interfaces to improve their support for DMA resource management. That was > done for Oracle Solaris years ago now, and its probably the one thing holding > us back with respect to making the GLDv3 a “public” interface. But see above > wrt up-to-my-eyeballs.) Just for curiosity's sake which interfaces in particular is it that you're referring to? I assume you're not referring to the various ring interfaces, but rather some other aspect of the GLDv3? Robert ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
