e1000 and ICH9 hardware
Hi, Are there any plans to add ICH9 support to the e1000 driver (I note there is a patch floating around), or is the intention that ICH9 users all move to e1000e? Just wondering which approach to take in terms of getting this hardware supported in Gentoo's 2.6.23 kernels. Thanks! Daniel - 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
Re: e1000 and ICH9 hardware
Daniel Drake wrote: Are there any plans to add ICH9 support to the e1000 driver (I note there is a patch floating around), or is the intention that ICH9 users all move to e1000e? They all should use e1000e. Further, in 2.6.25 or so, some e1000 PCI IDs will be moved to e1000e, and support removed in e1000. e1000 is being frozen in time as "pre-PCI Express e1000's". Jeff - 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
Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 and ICH9 hardware
>e1000 is being frozen in time as "pre-PCI Express e1000's". Asking the question a different way, will the current e1000 driver continue to get new features, performance / power / optimization tweaks, etc. or is most of the primary development be moving only on the e1000e kit? --David - 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
Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 and ICH9 hardware
David A. Ranch wrote: >>> e1000 is being frozen in time as "pre-PCI Express e1000's". >> > Asking the question a different way, will the current e1000 driver > continue to get new features, performance / power / optimization tweaks, > etc. or is most of the primary development be moving only on the e1000e kit? the ultimate goal is to move all the pci-express hardware support over to e1000e. since the pci/pci-x generation e1000 chipsets do not have nearly the amount of features that the pci-e silicon has, you can expect the e1000 driver to be significantly stripped down. We do however want to keep any feature that is supported for the pci/pci-x hardware in e1000 active. we will not disable TSO for instance. As for other features we will decide whatever makes best sense for the hardware. (e.g. none of the 8254x chipsets support multiple queues). All of the primary development of features will focus on e1000e. 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
