Re: [RTnet-developers] Support for 82574L, 82574LA and 82583V e1000 chips

[Arnout V. <ar...@mi...>]

On Tuesday 04 October 2011 13:23:18, Stefan Kral wrote:
> > The bugfix to bs.m4 is something I posted to the list last week too. The
> > bugfix in configure.ac I couldn't find.
> 
> This was just one thing: I had a problem with the including at line 125 (.
> $RTNET_KCONFIG_FILE) because '.' was not in my PATH

 Ah, I use absolute paths for RTNET_KCONFIG_FILE :-)

> > I would like to submit this driver to the list.  Can you give your
> > Signed-off-by ( http://kerneltrap.org/files/Jeremy/DCO.txt )?
> 
> Feel free to do that. If you like to add my sign too, please use 'Stefan
> Kral stefan<AT>redfibre<DOT>net'

 Patch coming up!

> One additional note: within the 82574L driver all special features like
> jumbo frames, packet split, msi interrupts are switched off by commenting
> out the relating functions. I think, if the driver runs stable at the
> current state, this features could be enabled too.

 Packet split is probably a bad idea for RTnet.  Jumbo could be supported but 
I don't know if there is any current driver that actually does support it.  
MSI interrupts I added because I need them on my own setup.  I didn't include 
MSI-X, though, because I don't understand how that works so I don't trust it.

 VLAN and ethtool are probably not useful for RTnet.  Is there any RTnet 
driver supporting VLAN?

 mii and multicast would be useful additions.  However, I don't need them, so 
I won't spend any time on implementing them.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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