oops, qfe is b74

I lied... (not intentionally, I got confused.) The qfe GLDv3 port is in b74, not b73. Sorry!

snv_73 goodness

Solaris Nevada b73, when it comes out, is going to have a lot of good NIC stuff in it.

* afe driver (putback yesterday)
* mxfe driver
* rtls on SPARC (including suspend/resume!)
* qfe GLDv3 support

Plus, there are a lot of good networking improvements; a lot of stale code was removed (defunct mobile IPv4 support, detangling NAT, etc.)

There's a bunch of carryover from snv_70-72 too...

I for one, can hardly wait.

mxfe RTI....

FYI,

I've submitted earlier today the RTI for mxfe. I expect afe (which will be more popular) will be later this week or early next. (We've fallen behind on some of the testing.)

I've also started looking at porting rtls to SPARC, and making it support SUSPEND/RESUME. More on that shortly.

rtls GLDv3

And now rtls is GLDv3. Not open source (yet), and no SPARC support, but hopefully those will both get fixed soon. Have fun!

qfe GLDv3

As my first gift to the community since becoming a Sun employee, I've putback the conversion of QFE to the new hme common GLDv3 code. Now you can use your old QFE boards with IP instances, VLANs, whatever. Go wild. Hopefully the rtls conversion will get putback tonight as well... still waiting for my RTI advocate to approve it.

Stuck with an rtls? (Realtek 8139)

I've recently hacked up the Realtek driver (rtls) to support GLDv3. Its part of usr/closed right now (though I hope we can open source it!), so I can only share binaries.

Anyway, if you're stuck with this driver on your x86 system (because its on your motherboard, usually), and you want to try running a GLDv3 version of the driver, let me know.

The GLDv3 brings link aggregation support, VLAN support, and virtualization (IP instances) with it.

Of course the hardware is still somewhat crummy, so I wouldn't expect to get much performance out of it. But again, if you're stuck with it (as many people probably are) this may be helpful.

Dropping the "C"

For those not in the know, its now official. I'll be (re-)joining Sun as a regular full time employee starting August 20th. That means that I get to drop the "C" in front of my employee ID.

I'll be reporting to Neal Pollack, initially working on various Intel related Solaris projects.