Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 and ICH9 hardware

2007-10-29 Thread Kok, Auke
David A. Ranch wrote: >>> e1000 is being frozen in time as "pre-PCI Express e1000's". >> > Asking the question a different way, will the current e1000 driver > continue to get new features, performance / power / optimization tweaks, > etc. or is most of the primary development be moving only o

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 and ICH9 hardware

2007-10-29 Thread David A. Ranch
>e1000 is being frozen in time as "pre-PCI Express e1000's". Asking the question a different way, will the current e1000 driver continue to get new features, performance / power / optimization tweaks, etc. or is most of the primary development be moving only on the e1000e kit? --David -

Re: e1000 and ICH9 hardware

2007-10-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Daniel Drake wrote: Are there any plans to add ICH9 support to the e1000 driver (I note there is a patch floating around), or is the intention that ICH9 users all move to e1000e? They all should use e1000e. Further, in 2.6.25 or so, some e1000 PCI IDs will be moved to e1000e, and support rem

e1000 and ICH9 hardware

2007-10-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Are there any plans to add ICH9 support to the e1000 driver (I note there is a patch floating around), or is the intention that ICH9 users all move to e1000e? Just wondering which approach to take in terms of getting this hardware supported in Gentoo's 2.6.23 kernels. Thanks! Daniel -