> > I thought PRO/1000 worked already (see the Wiki) > > There are a few different Pro/1000 variants. I'm specifically > interested in the Pro/1000-PT quad-port card. It's based on the 82571 > (according to Intel's online spec's), which is supported by the > driver. I'm just concerned about any quirks or potential gotchas in > relation to this specific card (e.g. PCI bus glue, phy interface, or > what have you).
it's all supported. the pro/1000 PT has 2 82571 controllers and a pcie/pcie switch (i forget the company that makes that thing). it's a very fancy bit of hardware. the pcie generation of intel nics are pretty good. for the most part, one can ignore the phy. i wish they'd do it like myricom, though. myricom thinks the driver is on a need-to-know basis about the mac/phy. and the driver doesn't need to know. - erik
