linux-kernel - Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

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Message-ID: <455E1C01.8000603@garzik.org>
Date:	Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:30:57 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Felix Marti <felix@...lsio.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

Felix Marti wrote:
> Jeff, as indicated by Chris, the driver that is in the kernel is for
> N110 and N210. So far, we have not received any customer complaints
> regarding bugs in the driver and thus it has not been updated in a long
> time. If you feel like there are some missing features/bug fixes, I'd be
> glad to spend some time on it.
> 
> However, Chris's initial request is regarding support for T210. As you
> indicate, the T210 product is a superset of N110/N210 and i.e. supports
> TOE. Since the T210 board features additional pieces of hardware, these
> must be initialized (i.e. memory controllers and TCAM) even if the board
> is to be used as a NIC only. If the kernel developers are okay with
> these additional initialization procedures we could update the driver to
> support N as well as T based products, in NIC mode only, of course ;)


I'd welcome support for NIC mode, so, sure...

	Jeff


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