80003 NICs and NICs found on ICH8 mobos, and improves support for
already known chips.
Details:
- if_em.c. Merged manually, viewing diff between new vendor
driver and previous one. This was an easy task, because
most changes between 5.1.5 and 6.0.5 are bugfixes taken
from FreeBSD.
- 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 restored
revision 1.15.
- if_em_osdep.h. Added new required macros from vendor file
and add a hack against define namespace mangling in
if_em_hw.h. Intel made another hack, but I prefer mine.
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.
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
- Added support for ITR (interrupt throttle register). This feature is available on
adapters based on 82545 and above
- Fixed problem with vlan support when traffic has priority bits set. (kern/45907)
PR: kern/45907
MFC after: 1 week
- 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
