Hi, V st, 08. 07. 2009 v 00:08, Steven Stallion píše: > All, > > I have been working with Garrett D'Amore over the last several months to > add in GLDv3 support to the aging dnet driver. Unfortunately dnet is in > pretty rough shape, and a number of inherent issues (particularly with PHY > selection in the driver) is preventing clean results from NICDRV. Now that > Brussels and Garrett's mii work have been putback, the driver is even more > out of date. > > I spoke with Garrett briefly today, and had a thought: Rather than continue > to prop up dnet and build on a shaky foundation, I would like to see the > driver EOL'd and replaced by a clean-room implementation (the emancipation > driver-gate seems a good candidate until the new code can be integrated > into ON). > > Assuming community approval, I am stopping NICDRV testing of the patch for > Bug ID 6687881, although it is still available: > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~stallion/dnet/ > > Thoughts? > > Steve >
Nothing against it if we have some driver available. There are not many tulip cards flying around probably (I have one or two which are used for testing before RTIs) but it is also used as virtual device in one virtualization tool (Hyper-V), so it is still important driver. The question is - how long will it take to have good replacement? Will it be more stable and in better quality? One thing I never understood - did you dnet updates brought new regressions or were you trying to solve all dnet bugs (which is not possible probably)? Best regards, Milan _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
