Re: New driver coming soon.

From: Kip Macy <kip.macy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:42 -0700
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
>
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