[openib-general] [PATCH 00/18] [RFC] Chelsio cxgb3 iWARP/OpenIB Driver

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Mar 6 10:58:25 PST 2006


 > The entire subsystem is layed out as a set of modules:
 > 
 > iw_cxgb3.ko - The main OpenIB Provider module.
 > 
 > cxgb3rc.ko - The rdma core module that interfaces with the HW for RDMA.
 > 
 > cxgb3c.ko - The cxgb3 core module that allows LLP connections to
 > manipulated.
 > 
 > cxgb3.ko - the cxgb3 LLD/NETDEV driver with offload support.  This driver
 > is currently checked in to gen2/branches/iwarp/src/linux-kernel/net/cxgb3.
 > Chelsio will submit this driver eventually to the kernel netdev group
 > for inclusion into kernel.org.  For now, I've placed it in the openib
 > tree so the entire subsystem can be used.  I'm only including patches
 > for the .h files that define the interface used by the other modules.

Sorry for be lazy and not figuring this out by reading the patch --
but how does this relate to the existing cxgb driver in the upstream
kernel?  Is it a new driver for a different device?

 - R.



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