Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kok, Auke wrote: >> All, >> >> here is the third version of the igb (82575) ethernet controller >> driver. This >> driver was previously posted 2007-07-13 and 2007-12-11. Many comments >> received >> were addressed: >> >> - removed indirection wrappers in the same way as e1000e and ixgbe. >> - cleaned up largely against sparse, checkpatch >> - removed module parameters and moved functionality to ethtool ioctls >> - new NAPI API rewrites >> - by default the driver runs in multiqueue mode with 2 to 40 RX queues >> enabled. >> >> and specifically in this version: >> >> - register macro's were condensed for readability >> - fixed namespace collisions by renaming functions to igb_* >> >> Since the driver is still too large (allthough the patch shrunk from >> 558k to 416k >> to 407k, almost 38% of its size) to post to this list I am attaching >> the bzipped >> patch here. You can get the same driver alternatively from here: >> >> http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/0001-igb-PCI-Express-82575-Gigabit-Ethernet-driver.patch >> >> [407k] >> http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/0001-igb-PCI-Express-82575-Gigabit-Ethernet-driver.patch.bz2 >> >> [74k] >> >> or through git: >> git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/linux-2.6 #igb >> >> >> There are several concerns still open for this driver: >> - hardware code is still a large API. we're expecting more hardware to be >> supported by this driver in the future. The API has already been >> scrubbed but we >> anticipate that the remaining hooks will be used in the future. >> - The register defines are still named "E1000_" as they are mostly >> identical to >> the e1000 chipsets (igb register space is a superset of most recent >> e1000 register >> sets). > > I think we can throw it into netdev#upstream if you're ready...
yes, of course :) both the patch file and the git tree should work for you. Cheers, Auke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
