From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: <455E1C22.1090108@garzik.org> References: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334DA4851@maui.asicdesigners.com> <455E1C01.8000603@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev List Return-path: To: Felix Marti In-Reply-To: <455E1C01.8000603@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Felix Marti wrote: >> Jeff, as indicated by Chris, the driver that is in the kernel is for >> N110 and N210. So far, we have not received any customer complaints >> regarding bugs in the driver and thus it has not been updated in a long >> time. If you feel like there are some missing features/bug fixes, I'd be >> glad to spend some time on it. >> >> However, Chris's initial request is regarding support for T210. As you >> indicate, the T210 product is a superset of N110/N210 and i.e. supports >> TOE. Since the T210 board features additional pieces of hardware, these >> must be initialized (i.e. memory controllers and TCAM) even if the board >> is to be used as a NIC only. If the kernel developers are okay with >> these additional initialization procedures we could update the driver to >> support N as well as T based products, in NIC mode only, of course ;) > > > I'd welcome support for NIC mode, so, sure... Well, presuming that active maintenance comes along with it... Jeff