Hi! > >> I haven't looked into the drivers, I just wonder if there might not be > >> some common feature set and if we might not be lucky requiring only that > >> for RTnet. Or what are differences feature-wise? > > When I got it right, the driver was re-organized to ease maintenance. > > Diff-ing the e1000 and the e1000e drivers shows actually many > differences. > > For sure. The question is what parts are different, already basic > controller setups and TX/RX stuff, or are mostly those special > (off-loading) features different which we do not use anyway. One important change seems to me that with the e1000 there was a feature CONFIG_E1000_NAPI (Use Rx Polling) that was disabled with the rt_e1000 driver. However, with the e1000e, this feature is not selectable and is implicitly activated.
The sending (e1000_xmit_frame) and the receiving of ethernet frames seems to be very similar, thus the main difference is done in the initialization and configuration stuff. I agree, that we can skip many of the configuration stuff there but - as usual - it seems to end up in a line-by-line evaluation of the driver :-( Regards Mathias -- Mathias Koehrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jetzt komfortabel bei Arcor-Digital TV einsteigen: Mehr Happy Ends, mehr Herzschmerz, mehr Fernsehen! Erleben Sie 50 digitale TV Programme und optional 60 Pay TV Sender, einen elektronischen Programmführer mit Movie Star Bewertungen von TV Movie. Außerdem, aktuelle Filmhits und spannende Dokus in der Arcor-Videothek. Infos unter www.arcor.de/tv ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
