From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andrew Grover <andy.grover@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jason Lunz <lunz@reflexsecurity.com>
Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46859F3F.305@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0a09e5c0706291657kd5e4baawb113a17ca5ab2191@mail.gmail.com>
Andrew Grover wrote:
> I think making e1000new ICH9-and-newer isn't really the best place to
> split it. The Windows e1000 driver got split on the PCI->PCIe
> transition, something that clearly delineated what nics one driver
> supported, and the other. There's no real technical reason for
> splitting now other than "this was when e1000old collapsed under its
> own weight".
>
> The PCIe adapters are also the first ones to support multiple queues
> IIRC, maybe that would be an another actual technical reason to split
> it there?
Can knowledgeable people characterize the PCIe adapters somehow? Is
that "ICH8-era and later", or does it go back further than that?
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 17:29 e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? Mark McLoughlin
2007-06-29 17:50 ` Jason Lunz
2007-06-29 19:51 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-29 20:22 ` Jason Lunz
2007-06-29 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-30 21:24 ` Mark McLoughlin
2007-07-02 23:52 ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-07-03 0:10 ` Rick Jones
2007-07-03 0:55 ` Jason Lunz
2007-07-03 1:44 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-03 7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-03 13:13 ` [E1000-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 20:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 21:39 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-29 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-29 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 23:24 ` RFR: New e1000 driver (e1000new), was: " Kok, Auke
2007-06-29 23:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-08 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-08 20:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-08 22:01 ` [E1000-devel] " Jonathan Lundell
2007-06-30 3:32 ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-08 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-06 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-07 0:13 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-07 12:23 ` James Chapman
2007-07-08 18:41 ` James Chapman
2007-07-07 18:59 ` Andrew Grover
2007-06-29 23:57 ` Andrew Grover
2007-06-30 0:02 ` Andrew Grover
2007-06-30 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-30 1:29 ` Jim McCullough
2007-06-30 1:31 ` Jim McCullough
2007-06-30 2:34 ` [E1000-devel] " Kok, Auke
2007-06-30 2:31 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-30 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-03 22:48 ` Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?) Kok, Auke
2007-07-05 18:32 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-06 0:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-07 0:14 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-07 13:58 ` James Chapman
2007-07-07 19:04 ` Francois Romieu
2007-07-07 21:54 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-08 1:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-08 10:07 ` James Chapman
2007-07-08 16:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-08 18:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-08 19:24 ` Andrew Grover
2007-07-09 17:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-08 20:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-09 18:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-09 18:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-09 19:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-09 20:46 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-09 22:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-13 21:45 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-13 22:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-13 22:13 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-08 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-08 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-30 14:31 ` e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? James Chapman
2007-06-30 16:29 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-01 10:45 ` James Chapman
2007-06-30 8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-29 22:16 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-29 22:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 21:39 ` Andy Gospodarek
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