Re: Intel I340-T2 card question

[Scott Solmonson <scosol%scosol.org@localhost>]

According to IBM, this adapter is based on the well-supported Intel
GBE core used in X86 land everywhere on Allah's green Earth--
shouldn't "support" for it be largely a matter of nothing more than
some additional device-id string matching and potentially different
defaults?

-SS
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM, David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:48:47AM +0100, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
>> David Young wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:32:06AM +0400, Dmitry Cherkassov wrote:
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > Could you say please will Intel I340-T2 eth adapter (that one for
>> > > IBM/System x) work with ordinary PC?
>> >
>> > I don't think we have a driver for that adapter, yet.
>>
>> This commit
>>
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/if_wm.c?only_with_tag=MAIN#rev1.208
>>
>> says "Tested on my own I340-T4".
>> T2 and T4 designate number of ports, AFAIK.
>
> Someone told me that NetBSD operates the device in a wm(4) compatibility
> mode that is described only in a Japanese-language datasheet.  Perhaps
> the timestamps are available even in the compatibility mode, though.
>
> Dave
>
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