Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Nicolas Droux wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
I've gone ahead and done a conversion of dmfe to GLDv3 (nemo). I
actually have a dmfe device on SPARC (in this case its on a SPARC
laptop), so I figured this would be beneficial.
I'd like to have folks review the work at
http://cr.grommit.com/~gdamore/dmfe_gldv3/webrev
Great to see another driver ported to Nemo.
Want to do the others as well... eri and hme are next on my hit list.
They will get a _lot_ smaller as a result. There's been request for qfe
(and also for qfe sources to be open) with support for qfe on x86.
However, those sources are not open yet, for reasons beyond my
understanding at the moment.
I would suggest focusing on the ones that are still heavily used instead
of the ones for legacy devices, and instead spend time on making the
GLDv3 interface officially public so that more "interesting" drivers can
be ported to GLDv3 :-)
Likewise for gem. Cassini is probably the most pressing conversion, but
also the most painful/risky to do, because it supports so many
features. I might be willing to convert it, if I had hardware readily
available.
Yeah, that would be more challenging. Also ce does not live in ON and I
don't think it is opensourced.
FYI, my own afe driver, which is GLDv2 (Solaris 8 DDI only) is soon to
be integrated. I'm not converting to nemo until _after_ integration, as
I do not want to cause a reset on the testing that has already taken
place prior to its integration.
That's unfortunate. If the end-goal is to have a GLDv3 version, the
appropriate retesting will have to be done anyway. These extra cycles
could be spent now and the conversion done with. (This is pointing out
another problem which is the level of pain needed to properly QA a
driver before integration in ON, this should be really automated to
lower the barrier of entry for new drivers in ON.)
Are there any sample tests that I can use to validate the MULTIADDRESS
capability? I'm thinking that I'd add that as an RFE after I commit the
initial nemo conversion.
Unfortunately not today. One way to do this today would be to use your
driver on a system running Crossbow and use VNICs to exercise that code.
Btw, have you reviewed the actual code? I'm looking for reviewers that
I can list in an RTI....
Not yet, but I will.
Nicolas.
-- Garrett
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Nicolas Droux - Solaris Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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