Patrick Proniewski wrote:
> On 21 déc. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
>
>>> I've just discovered that Intel provides some
drivers for the Intel
>>> PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD:
>>> I was wondering: is there any point in running
those drivers instead
>>> of the freebsd ones, performance wise of
course.
>
>> AFAIK these are the drivers that can be found in
the base system as well.
>> Intel's drivers are pretty fine, there's no need to
write new ones.
>
> I've made a quick comparison between
/usr/src/sys/dev/mii/e1000phy.c
> (freebsd 6.2) and e1000_phy.c (as part of the
em-6.6.6.tgz provided by
> Intel), and the too files are quite different.
> But well, I'm not a developer, and that's probably not
significant.
>
> regards,
> patpro
Jack Vogel (cc'd) is the Intel developer that maintains the
FreeBSD
drivers. He should be able to shed more light on this
question.
Tom
_______________________________________________
freebsd-performance freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-p
erformance
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-performance-unsubscribefreebsd.org"
|