Subject: Re: PowerEdge 600SC - Summary and Questions
To: Adam Glass <adam@clarity.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/19/2003 18:03:59
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:52  PM, Adam Glass wrote:

> Actually, this is very apropos of that other port-i386 thread... one of
> the two motherboards I've been looking at for a dual Xeon system I'm
> building uses the ServerWorks GC-SL chipset (the SuperMicro X5DEi-GG --
> see http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/GC_SL/X5DEi.htm),
> and the other is Intel E7501-based with an Intel 82545 gigabit Ethernet
> interface (the SuperMicro X5DPL-iGM --see
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/E7501/X5DPL-iGM.htm).
> Anyone (Jason?) know if the 82545 will be supported by the wm driver?

Yes, it is.

> 1.6.1 support for Intel 82545-based Ethernet interfaces would be
> fantastic.  If the powers that be are listening and it isn't too late
> to get UDMA support for the ServerWorks CSB6 controller into 1.6.1,
> that'd be darn spiffy too.  If it doesn't make it, I guess I'll try
> the patch that Dave suggested.

Yah, 1.6.1 should support the '540, '545, and '546.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>