Re: e1000e update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>> To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Cc: Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>; "e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: e1000e update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 20:12 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 04:16 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the
> Linux
>> > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In
> the
>> > > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm
> series
>> > > 2.6.32.y.
>> > >
>> > > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware
> support,
>> > > but there are so many interrelated changes to e1000e since 2.6.32
> that
>> > > this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of
> e1000e from
>> > > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
>> > >
>> > > git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git e1000e-test
>> > >
>> > > The kernel configuration files we use are at
>> > > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>.
>> > >
>> > > We would appreciate any help Intel can provide in testing this,
> and any
>> > > advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
>> > >
>> > > I'll also be looking at doing this for igb later.
>> >
>> > Full source and binary packages containing e1000e, igb, and other
>> > backported drivers can now be found at:
>> >
>> > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
>> >
>> > I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will
>> > have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months
> away).
>>
>> Unfortunately that's exactly what happened. But let's try this
> again.
>> I updated igb and igbvf to 3.0 as there seemed to be significant
>> additions in hardware support. e1000e is still at 2.6.38 with one later
>> fix.
>>
>> The backports of e1000e, igb and igbvf are available in the git branch:
>>
>> git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git squeeze
>>
>> The changes start after tag debian/2.6.32-35squeeze1.
>>
>> The kernel configuration files we use are at
>> <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>.
>>
>> Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported
>> drivers can now be found at:
>>
>> http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
>>
>> We would appreciate any help you can provide in testing this, and any
>> advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>
> Ben,
>
> I cannot guarantee any testing resources right now, when would like
> testing to be done/completed?
Hi Jeff,
I think the main idea here is to get a test of the e1000e driver, to see if it works on the hardware,
before the updates for Debian stable are released, in 3 months or so.
It seems that there has been no response from anyone that has the new intel e1000e gigabit nic yet to verify Ben's work on the driver.
Any, testing of hardware using the e1000e driver found http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ ; here
or development documentation intel is willing to provide for e1000e and/or other "newer released" intel hardware ie: igb
would help Debian speed it's release of updates to the Debian Stable Release in 3 months or so.
Will
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
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