From Garrett.Damore@sun.com Tue May 22 15:06:43 2007 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MM6g3K014021 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4MM5Pqi028758 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-EXT@sun.com>; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:05:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JIG00509QP1J900@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([10.4.134.6]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JIG00L8RQP1SHA0@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.39.119]) by nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4MM5Obq017588 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-sfbay-09.sun.com by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JIG00G01QL19S00@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM) for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.251.21] ([76.174.83.55]) by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JIG002G6QOXDI15@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:04:04 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: PSARC 2007/291 mxfe ethernet driver Sender: Garrett.Damore@sun.com To: PSARC-EXT@sun.com Message-id: <465368D4.90101@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 1979 I'm submitting the following fasttrack on my own behalf. Its to add a new GLDv3 driver for a commodity chip (one I happen to have several of). Time out is set for 5/30/2007, and binding requested is minor. It probably qualifies for automatic approval, but as it increases the number of GLDv3 device drivers, and as the chip is no longer marketed, I would like to give PSARC a chance to complain before I drive forward with this. As I've only implemented this to the version of GLDv3 in Nevada, and as I have a GLDv2 version publically available, I'm not interested in backporting to Solaris 10, though if there is demand I'm willing to do it. -- Garrett Fasttrack: mxfe ethernet driver We'd like to add a new device driver, "mxfe", to provide support various chips based on the Macronix PMAC 98715/98713 and Lite-On PNIC-II. These are commodity 10/100 ethernet controllers. These chips are used primarily on add-in PCI cards, typically 32/33MHz (i.e. legacy PCI). While we do not believe that they are actively marketed any more, there are quite a few of them out in the field. OEM'd cards included the Linksys LNE100TX version 2, cards from Compex, Buffalo, Kingston, and a few other manufacturers. Time Warner included Kingston KNE-111TX cards with their home Cable Modems for a while. The installed base is significant, though not overwhelming. The device driver is a GLDv3 driver, and supports the normal GLDv3 features, which makes it useful for VLANs, aggregation, and with other OS features like Crossbow's IP instances. It does not rely on any private APIs other than GLDv3 (which is Consolidation Private). It does support NDD through an independent implementation of the NDD ioctls (i.e. it doesn't use any code from drv/ip.) This driver is based upon an older GLDv2 driver, which was distributed under a BSD license. We'd like to retain the BSD license, but the author has agreed to contribute under the SCA/CDDL if that is preferable. From Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM Tue May 22 15:09:12 2007 Received: from sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail3mpk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.52]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MM9CFs014044 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4MM7w3o017354 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-EXT@sun.com>; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JIG0050FQTAS000@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([10.4.134.5]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JIG00LZTQTAS790@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.39.119]) by nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4MM7w2D000546 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-sfbay-09.sun.com by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JIG00001QSRYV00@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM) for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.251.21] ([76.174.83.55]) by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JIG002DGQT6DI25@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:06:38 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: Re: PSARC 2007/291 mxfe ethernet driver In-reply-to: <465368D4.90101@sun.com> Sender: Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM To: "Garrett D'Amore" Cc: PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM Message-id: <4653696E.8090801@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <465368D4.90101@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 313 Just to answer a few other questions: * the driver supports both SPARC and x86 * the driver supports full MTU VLAN frames * the chip is indeed a tulip derivative. * I have a spare card I can donate to QA/PIT as needed. I guess I could have put that in the original e-mail. :-) -- Garrett From gww@eng.sun.com Tue May 22 15:18:33 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MMIWua014084 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4MMHB8q024360 for <@sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-EXT@sun.com>; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:17:18 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JIG00601R8SAV00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@sun.com); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from engmail3mpk.sfbay.Sun.COM ([129.146.11.26]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JIG00596R8RDI10@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@sun.com); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marduk.eng.sun.com (marduk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.108.224]) by engmail3mpk.sfbay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4MMHFUv005647; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marduk.eng.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by marduk.eng.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l4MMJHlt015446; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gww@localhost) by marduk.eng.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.11/Submit) id l4MMJH81015445; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Winiger Subject: Re: PSARC 2007/291 mxfe ethernet driver To: PSARC-EXT@sun.com, Garrett.Damore@sun.com Message-id: <200705222219.l4MMJH81015445@marduk.eng.sun.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 569 > I'm submitting the following fasttrack on my own behalf. Its to add a > new GLDv3 driver for a commodity chip (one I happen to have several > of). Time out is set for 5/30/2007, and binding requested is minor. > As I've only implemented this to the version of GLDv3 in Nevada, and as > I have a GLDv2 version publically available, I'm not interested in > backporting to Solaris 10, though if there is demand I'm willing to do it. If there's nothing to preclude a Patch release binding, why not ask for one now? There's no requirement to backport. Gary.. From Garrett.Damore@sun.com Tue May 22 15:38:41 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4MMceOr014168 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4MMbIMb000542 for <@newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com:PSARC-EXT@sun.com>; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:37:26 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JIG00F01S6C7G00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@sun.com); Tue, 22 May 2007 16:37:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([10.4.134.5]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JIG00A8RS6BNR60@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@sun.com); Tue, 22 May 2007 16:37:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d1-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.39.119]) by nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4MMbNdU004033 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-sfbay-09.sun.com by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JIG00101S368L00@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM) for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@sun.com); Tue, 22 May 2007 15:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.251.21] ([76.174.83.55]) by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JIG002W0S68DH18@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com>; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:36:03 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: Re: PSARC 2007/291 mxfe ethernet driver In-reply-to: <200705222219.l4MMJH81015445@marduk.eng.sun.com> Sender: Garrett.Damore@sun.com To: Gary Winiger Cc: psarc-ext@sun.com Message-id: <46537053.7060500@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200705222219.l4MMJH81015445@marduk.eng.sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 1024 Gary Winiger wrote: >> I'm submitting the following fasttrack on my own behalf. Its to add a >> new GLDv3 driver for a commodity chip (one I happen to have several >> of). Time out is set for 5/30/2007, and binding requested is minor. >> > > >> As I've only implemented this to the version of GLDv3 in Nevada, and as >> I have a GLDv2 version publically available, I'm not interested in >> backporting to Solaris 10, though if there is demand I'm willing to do it. >> > > If there's nothing to preclude a Patch release binding, why > not ask for one now? There's no requirement to backport. > Different version of GLDv3. Since the APIs are different, I wasn't sure it was a 100% slam dunk. And in any case, I don't really care about making it work on S10. Furthermore, if there is ARC activity required to create a backport (even trivial) maybe it will discourage anyone from wanting to back port. I'm still interested in creating carrots for some future Solaris 11... :-) -- Garrett From Garrett.Damore@sun.com Wed May 23 10:28:07 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4NHS6VB008110 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l4NHQaLa011024 for <@sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-EXT@sun.com>; Thu, 24 May 2007 01:26:52 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JII00H0D8GS4A00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([10.4.134.6]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JII00DX78GQAE50@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.39.119]) by nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4NHQoOf015511 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-sfbay-09.sun.com by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JII00801844O400@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Garrett.Damore@Sun.COM) for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.251.21] ([76.174.83.55]) by d1-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JII002CY8GMDIT7@d1-sfbay-09.sun.com> for PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM (ORCPT PSARC-EXT@Sun.COM); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:25:27 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: Re: PSARC 2007/291 mxfe ethernet driver In-reply-to: <465368D4.90101@sun.com> Sender: Garrett.Damore@sun.com To: "Garrett D'Amore" Cc: psarc-ext@sun.com Message-id: <46547907.9090802@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <465368D4.90101@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 66 This case was approved at today's PSARC meeting. -- Garrett