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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jack F Vogel
b6582d0066 First off: update the driver README, the old one was horribly
crusty, and this still isn't perfect, but its at least a bit
more recent.

Secondly, a few improvements to the driver from Andrew Boyer,
support hint to allow devices to not attach, add VLAN_HWTSO
capability so vlans can use TSO, fix in the interrupt handler
to make sure the stack TX queue is processed. Oh, and also
make sure IPv6 does not cause a re-init in the ioctl routine.
Thanks for your efforts Andrew!

Thanks to Claudio Jeker for noticing the ixgbe_xmit() routine
was not correctly swapping the dma map from the first to the
last descriptor in a multi-descriptor transmission, corrected
this.
2011-06-02 00:34:57 +00:00
Jack F Vogel
c00148556a Update the driver to Intel version 2.1.6
- add some new hardware support for 82599
	- Big change to interrupt architecture, it now
	  uses a queue which contains an RX/TX pair as
	  the recipient of the interrupt. This will reduce
	  overall system interrupts/msix usage.
	- Improved RX mbuf handling: the old get_buf routine
	  is no longer synchronized with rxeof, this allows
	  the elimination of packet discards due to mbuf
	  allocation failure.
	- Much simplified and improved AIM code, it now
	  happens in the queue interrupt context and takes
	  into account both the traffic on the RX AND TX
	  side.
	- variety of small tweaks, like ring size, that have
	  been seen as performance improvements.
	- Thanks to those that provided feedback or suggested
	  changes, I hope I've caught all of them.
2010-03-27 00:21:40 +00:00
Jack F Vogel
0ac6dfec68 Update the ixgbe driver to 1.7.4, this includes support
for the new 82599 adapter family, adds header split, and
many small fixes. The driver should now be added to the
GENERIC kernel.

MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-10 00:22:48 +00:00
Jack F Vogel
9ca4041b6c This is driver version 1.4.4 of the Intel ixgbe driver.
-It has new hardware support
  -It uses a new method of TX cleanup called Head Write Back
  -It includes the provisional generic TCP LRO feature contributed
   by Myricom and made general purpose by me. This should move into
   the stack upon approval but for this driver drop its in here.
  -Also bug fixes and etc...

MFC in a week if no serious issues arise.
2008-05-16 18:46:30 +00:00
Jack F Vogel
13705f88fa Add the actual source too :)
Approved by:	re
2007-07-11 23:03:16 +00:00