Subject: Re: New i386 box meets -current
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/04/2003 07:58:52
In article <C3523818-0CA2-11D8-A006-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>,
	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> Support for that Gig-E controller is in the works.  Support for it is 
> mostly present in the source tree right now, ...

Yup:

wm0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: Intel i82547EI 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 0
wm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 (irq 10)
wm0: 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus
wm0: 65536 word (16 address bits) SPI EEPROM
wm0: Ethernet address 00:07:e9:67:18:7b
igphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Intel IGP01E1000 Gigabit PHY, rev. 0

> ... but there are some  problems that Frank van der Linden is still
> trying to track down.

To elaborate on this:
The driver works stable enough to run NIS and NFS over it. But there are
problems when you push it hard (e.g. by running "ttcp" over Gigabit)
which result in low performance.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/