On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nicolas Droux wrote: > > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Nicolas Droux wrote: >> >>> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> >>>> I've gone ahead and done a conversion of dmfe to GLDv3 (nemo). I >>>> actually have a dmfe device on SPARC (in this case its on a SPARC >>>> laptop), so I figured this would be beneficial. >>>> >>>> I'd like to have folks review the work at >>>> http://cr.grommit.com/~gdamore/dmfe_gldv3/webrev >>> >>> >>> Great to see another driver ported to Nemo. >> >> >> Want to do the others as well... eri and hme are next on my hit >> list. They will get a _lot_ smaller as a result. There's been >> request for qfe (and also for qfe sources to be open) with support >> for qfe on x86. However, those sources are not open yet, for reasons >> beyond my understanding at the moment. > > > I would suggest focusing on the ones that are still heavily used > instead of the ones for legacy devices, and instead spend time on > making the GLDv3 interface officially public so that more > "interesting" drivers can be ported to GLDv3 :-) hme and qfe are widely used cards, especially qfe as quad port cards (10/100/1G) are not common and they provide a good way to bring in a lot of networking. eri is also quite common - all of the ultra5/10 boxes have them, not to mention netra x1, etc. Darren _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
Don't forget V890s still come with eri interfaces (as well as gem). I'd personally like to see ce myself since it is still present in lots of systems Sun sells, as well as their current quad ethernet card, though it sounds like it'd be a more complex task than the others.
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