Anyone working on Intel 82575 GigE support?

[Jeff Rizzo]

So I was foolishly non-specific with my vendor when ordering our new
webservers, and when they showed up today, they had onboard 82575 gigE
controllers, which NetBSD doesn't support yet.

Looking at FreeBSD, it looks like they've actually split out support for
the 82575 and newer chips out of em into an "igb" driver.

Before I get any deeper into this, is anyone else already working on
support for the 82575? Given my schedule, I may need to just put
FreeBSD on these machines, though I'm hoping to be able to take a crack
at adding support.

+j


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[Thor Lancelot Simon]

Post by Jeff Rizzo
So I was foolishly non-specific with my vendor when ordering our new
webservers, and when they showed up today, they had onboard 82575 gigE
controllers, which NetBSD doesn't support yet.
Looking at FreeBSD, it looks like they've actually split out support for
the 82575 and newer chips out of em into an "igb" driver.

They're completely incompatible. So are the new Intel 10Gb chips -- but
the new 1Gb and 10Gb chips are compatible with *each other*.