Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:44:28 -0400 | From | Greg Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Intel's Pro/1000 driver: when/will it make it into the kernel? |
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Jes Sorensen wrote:
[snip] > Interesting driver, it contains code that has been through a C > pre-processor. I wouldn't want to be the person who had try making it > run on non x86 hardware, they didn't even try to make it > portable. References PCI device registers directly not using the > readl/writel macros as one should, no memory barriers and it expects > operations like ptr->foo++ to be atomic - yummy, lotsa fun. > > Oh and is the hardware really so bad that it requires spin locks to > protect the tx queue? (hint, where are the public docs? ;-) > > Would be interesting to see how it performs against the Alteon and > Packet Engines cards, despite the broken license.
Well their (intel) site claimes this card has only a 64KB buffer. (http://www.intel.com/network/tech_specs/pro1000giga.htm) Furthermore, it sells for almost $600 US street price (while the netgear sells for around $300)!
I'd be seriously supprised to see a reason to buy this over a netgear card.
> Jes
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