Re: Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Clement Hermann]

Le 08/11/2015 03:56, Paul Wise a écrit :
> On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 08:12 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
>> Intel also maintains the drivers for their wired cards in
>> mainline. However, for some reason (unknown for me), they have always
>> restricted the features of those drivers.
> Has anyone suggested to Intel that they should upstream those features?
>
I didn't find anything definitive in the dev list archive, so I just
asked for clarification.

Let's see how it goes.

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Re: Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Clement Hermann]

Le 07/11/2015 18:18, Clément Hermann a écrit :
> Le 7 novembre 2015 16:33:23 GMT+01:00, Vincent Bernat
>  a écrit :
>
>  ❦  6 novembre 2015 22:39 +0100, Clement Hermann  :
>
> The package is on m.d.n : http://mentors.debian.net/package/igb 
>
>
> Not available anymore?
>
>
> Yeah, it will be again once I rework the description.
> Should be later this weekend.

I just uploaded it again, so it should show up in a few minutes.

Cheers,

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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦  6 novembre 2015 22:39 +0100, Clement Hermann  :

> The package is on m.d.n : http://mentors.debian.net/package/igb

Not available anymore?
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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Clément Hermann]

Le 7 novembre 2015 16:33:23 GMT+01:00, Vincent Bernat  a 
écrit :
> ❦  6 novembre 2015 22:39 +0100, Clement Hermann  :
>
>> The package is on m.d.n : http://mentors.debian.net/package/igb
>
>Not available anymore?
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Yeah, it will be again once I rework the description. 
Should be later this weekend.

I uploaded a  borked version and had to delete the whole package on m.d.n, and 
didn't have chance to upload the correct one 'cause life got in the way.

Sorry about that.

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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 08:12 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:

> Intel also maintains the drivers for their wired cards in
> mainline. However, for some reason (unknown for me), they have always
> restricted the features of those drivers.

Has anyone suggested to Intel that they should upstream those features?

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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Clement Hermann wrote:

> The package is needed because the in-tree driver doesn't have advanced 
> features such as interrupt throttle,
> multiqueue or Large Receive Offload.

Has Intel sent these features for inclusion in Linux mainline?

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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦  7 novembre 2015 09:23 +0800, Paul Wise  :

>> The package is needed because the in-tree driver doesn't have
>> advanced features such as interrupt throttle, multiqueue or Large
>> Receive Offload.
>
> Has Intel sent these features for inclusion in Linux mainline?

Intel also maintains the drivers for their wired cards in
mainline. However, for some reason (unknown for me), they have always
restricted the features of those drivers.
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Bug#804283: RFS: igb/5.3.3.2-1 [ITP] -- out of tree Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver.

[Clement Hermann]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Hi mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package igb.


* Package name: igb
  Version : 5.3.3.2-1
  Upstream Author : Intel Corporation
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
* License : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : dkms source for the igb network driver
  It builds this binary package: 

  igb-dkms   - dkms source for the igb network driver

The package is on m.d.n : http://mentors.debian.net/package/igb

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/igb/igb_5.3.3.2-1.dsc

More information about igb can be obtained from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ or 
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/13663/Network-Adapter-Driver-for-82575-6-82580-I350-and-I210-211-Based-Gigabit-Network-Connections-for-Linux-

You can also check the ITP: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804258


The package is needed because the in-tree driver doesn't have advanced features 
such as interrupt throttle,
multiqueue or Large Receive Offload.

As far as I can see, there is no firmware  blob loading that should prevent 
including it in main, but if 
I'm proven wrong I'd settle for a non-free upload.

Note that I already have a sponsor for my other packaging work (as a member of 
the perl pkg team), 
but this particular package obviously doesn't belong to this team, hence this 
RFS.

Also, I use git-buildpackage for the packaging work. For now, the Debian 
packaging is hosted on github 
(see Vcs-* URL in the package). I'd like to move it to anonvcs.debian.org, but 
I'd need my sponsor to create 
the repository in collab-maint. Even if you don't want to sponsor the package, 
I'd be glad if you could create
this repo.


Cheers,

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