Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:31:30 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x |
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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
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