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List:       netbsd-tech-net
Subject:    Re: Anyone working on Intel 82575 GigE support?
From:       Thor Lancelot Simon <tls () rek ! tjls ! com>
Date:       2008-08-08 21:27:31
Message-ID: 20080808212731.GA20809 () panix ! com
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 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*.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                   tls@rek.tjls.com
 "My guess is that the minimal training typically provided would only
 have given the party in question multiple new and elaborate ways to do
 something incomprehensibly stupid and dangerous."	-Rich Goldstone
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