Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Peter Memishian writes:
>  > 
>  >  >  > Clearview helps legacy drivers participate more equally, but not 
> fully 
>  >  >  > equally, in the Nevada networking stack. Some things you just cannot 
> do 
>  >  > 
>  >  > Will clearview allow GLDv2 drivers to do LSO?  The lack of LSO seems
>  >  > to be one especially annoying restricion on GLDv2 for which I can see
>  >  > no technical justification.
>  > 
>  > AFAIK, there's no support in the GLDv2 framework for LSO, which precludes
>  > softmac from being able to advertise that LSO is supported when providing
>  > its capabilities to the GLDv3 framework.  So, no, I don't think so.  But
>  > I'm not familiar with the LSO implementation so maybe this can be made to
>  > work with minimal effort.
>
> AFAICT, its about 10 lines of code to add to gld_cap_ack() and one
> #define GLD_CAP_LSO to add to gld.h to allow a gldv2 driver to
> advertise LSO..
>   

If that's the case, then I suggest you file an RFE, request-sponsor, and 
submit the code. You don't have to wait for someone at Sun to figure 
this out.

-- Garrett
> Drew
>
>   

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