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

[Steve Wise]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:58 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > 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?

Perhaps someone from Chelsio can give more details, but my understanding
is that this driver is not _yet_ in kernel.org, but it will be at some
point soon.  Until then, I was hoping to keep this driver in the openib
repos since it is needed for the iwarp functionality.  This driver
supports a new iwarp-capable hw device.  I think it will handle all the
chelsio NIC devices though.  So it will probaby replace the existing
driver in kernel.org soon...

Steve.