new chips and improves support for already supported ones.
Some details, important for future merges:
- if_em.c merged manually, viewing diff between new vendor
driver and previous one.
- if_em_hw.h dropped in from vendor, and then restored revisions
1.16, 1.17, 1.18.
- if_em_hw.c dropped in from vendor, and then two liner change made,
that restores support for two rare chips.
- Changed from using explicit devices id to using descriptive labels.
- Added support for 82573 and 82546 Quad adapters.
- Corrected support for 82547EI and 82541ER (mac_type was not assigned)
- Removed #ifdef DBG_STATS and extraneous code.
if_em_hw.c/if_em_hw.h
- Added support for 82573 and 82546 Quad adapters.
- Brought forward Intel's most current mac and phy changes.
Removed support for Intel 82541ER
Added fix for 82547 which corrects an issue with Jumbo frames larger than 10k.
Added fix for vlan tagged frames not being properly bridged.
Corrected TBI workaround.
Corrected incorrect LED operation issues
Submitted by: tackerman (Tony Ackerman)
MFC after: 2 weeks
- In the receive routine handle the case where last descriptor could have
less than 4 bytes of data.
- Handle race between detach/ioctl routine.
MFC after: 3 days
Bug Fixes:
- Allow users to use LAA
- Remember promiscuous mode settings while bridging
- Allow gratuitous arp's to be sent
PR: 52966/54488
MFC after: 1 week
Add sysctl's to display statistics/debug_info
Set WAIT_FOR_AUTONEG_DEFAULT to zero by default
Increment packet in/out statistics inline instead of every two seconds.
MFC after: 3 days
- Set RDTR to zero by default instead of 28.
- Fixed a problem with TX hangs with jumbo frames when number of fragments in the mbuf chain
is large.
- Added support for 82540EP based cards.
MFC after: 3 days
