netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:31:05 -0400
From:	"Jim McCullough" <jim.mccullough@...il.com>
To:	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Grover" <andy.grover@...il.com>,
	"Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@...hat.com>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jason Lunz" <lunz@...lexsecurity.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?

Sorry if this is a duplication, I forgot to switch to plain text.

On 6/29/07, Jim McCullough <jim.mccullough@...il.com> wrote:
> It goes back to ICH7 for the PCIe support.  That also includes models used as plugin PCIe devices.  I dont remember if ICH6 erra devices were PCI or PCIe.  I'll leave that part for Auke.
>
>
>  On 6/29/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:
>
> >  Andrew Grover wrote:
> > > I think making e1000new ICH9-and-newer isn't really the best place to
> > > split it. The Windows e1000 driver got split on the PCI->PCIe
> > > transition, something that clearly delineated what nics one driver
> > > supported, and the other. There's no real technical reason for
> > > splitting now other than "this was when e1000old collapsed under its
> > > own weight".
> > >
> > > The PCIe adapters are also the first ones to support multiple queues
> > > IIRC, maybe that would be an another actual technical reason to split
> > > it there?
> >
> > Can knowledgeable people characterize the PCIe adapters somehow?  Is
> > that "ICH8-era and later", or does it go back further than that?
> >
> >         Jeff
> >
> >
> >
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> Jim McCullough
>
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>     Norman Diamond



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Jim McCullough

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not necessarily required to jump off it."

    Norman Diamond
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