I am sponsoring this case for Samuel Tu. This case is to provide
a new NIC driver, ixge(7D), for Intel 10GbE PCI Express Adapter.
The requested releas binding is micro/patch.
I-team consider it is better to archive this driver in PSARC, while
the architecture is straight forwarding and the interface is
clear, I am marking it as "closed approved automatic."
-Cecilia
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.56 10/26/05 SMI
This information is Sun Proprietary: Need-to-Know
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Intel 10GbE PCIE NIC Driver
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Samuel Tu
1.3 Date of This Document:
22 October, 2007
4. Technical Description
This case adds support for Intel 10GbE PCI Express Adapter Driver
into ON.
The architecture of the Intel 10GbE PCI Express Adapter differs
significantly from the Intel 82597EX based PCIX Adapter, which is
supported by ixgb. An important new feature of this adapter is I/OAT
(I/O Acceleration Technology) from Intel which will be helpful for
performance improvement. So we introduce a new driver to support them.
Intel has software license agreement with Sun to allow Sun integrate
this driver and distribute the software in both source, and binary
object code forms. This SLA also grants Sun the right to make
modification to the source code and distribute the modified driver
in open source and binary forms.
The driver supports x86/x64 and SPARC platform.
The vendor ID and device ID of the chips supported are:
pci8086,10C6
pci8086,10C7
Interface Table
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| NAME | STABILITY LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
+------------------------+-----------------------+----------------+
| Interfaces Exported |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| ixgbe | Committed | Driver name |
|------------------------+-----------------------+----------------|
| SUNWixgbe | Committed | Package name |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Interfaces Imported |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| GLDv3 | Consolidation Private | PSARC/2004/571 |
| | | PSARC/2005/396 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
ON
6.5. ARC review type:
Self approval
