This is a resubmission of a new driver for Solarflare network controllers. The driver supports several types of PHY (10Gbase-T, XFP, CX4) on six different 10G and 1G boards.
Hardware based on this network controller is now available from SMC as part numbers SMC10GPCIe-XFP and SMC10GPCIe-10BT. The previous thread was: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119825632209357&w=2 Thanks to the people who looked at the previous patches. We have addressed the following from comments received after the 3rd submission: - Kerneldoc style comment - Kconfig changes - Reduced size slightly I am also sending a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for review of the MTD part of the driver. Previous reviewers have noted that the driver is quite large (but it would not be the largest network driver by source or compiled module size). I think it is a reasonable size for a driver that supports a fully featured NIC, across a range of MACs, PHYs and silicon revisions. One aspect that is worth mentioning is that the NIC has no firmware. A benefit is no dreaded binary blob! A downside is that more support code is needed but this tends to be around initialisation and is readable commented C. To give a small break down of the sizes of the different driver parts (wc output) Core control/datapath | 5001 16405 139467 = efx.c rx.c tx.c Controller HW support | 3653 11823 107554 = falcon.c HW defs | 1588 4838 47050 = falcon_hwdefs.h board support | 1848 7105 52455 MAC support | 1623 4977 51007 PHY support | 2196 7904 67711 Headers | 4565 20645 162402 Self test code | 863 3088 24981 Ethtool support | 751 2144 22845 MTD code (separate module) | 1021 3200 26944 Debugfs Code (KConfig option) | 863 2543 24896 Are there further review comments that we need to address before it can be merged? The patch (against net-2.6.25) is at: https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/4/net-2.6.25-sfc-2.2.0038.patch The new files may also be downloaded as a tarball: https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/4/net-2.6.25-sfc-2.2.0038.tgz And for verification there is: https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/4/MD5SUMS Regards -- Rob Stonehouse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
