On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:04:39AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > I need to look at this and figure out where exactly the lines are drawn > between the nfo and the nge. It seems the nge would handle some of the > devices that the nfo does, in that the nfo does handle some gige adapters > with a 10/100 PHY. > > My gut tells me that the nge needs to be updated to support the same > devices as the nfo. > That would of course be the preference, but I'd rather have a working driver.
> Maybe Masa has an idea about the nfo vs. nge. I know there are devices that > will load the nge, but the network doesn't seem to function correctly, and > many of those will be able to use the nfo successfully. > That's the case I'm hitting. I think someone suggested that the nge driver was trying to enable hardware checksums on chipsets that doesn't support it. > If there are devices that are not supported by the nge that should be, > RFE/bugs should be filed against it so the support can be added. > I'm pretty sure that there's been bugs logged for this for many months although most I can find suggest that fixes are in there. I'll take another look and file another bug. vh Mads Toftum -- http://soulfood.dk _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
