He stated previously that they are not compatible. On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer <brueffer_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:35PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > I wanted to let everyone know that I will soon have a > > new 10G driver to add to the tree. It is a PCI Express > > MSI/X adapter, I would like to call this driver 'ix' rather > > than follow Linux who are calling it 'ixgbe'. It is not > > backwardly compatible with ixgb. Any objections > > to the name? It would be nice to get this in before > > 7 becomes a RELEASE, what time frame do I > > have for that? > > > > Hi Jack, > > will the new driver support the hardware that ixgb(4) currently supports, > e.g. will it replace ixgb(4)? If yes, I'd like the name ixgb to stay. > > - Christian > > -- > Christian Brueffer chris_at_unixpages.org brueffer_at_FreeBSD.org > GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc > GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D >Received on Thu May 31 2007 - 16:33:45 UTC
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