TCP/IP Offload Engine

[Kuba Ober]

> After reading that page, I see that it is *remarkably* unbiased, when
> compared to the absolute flamage I've seen on linux-{net,kernel}.

:)

> > ..or the statement "refer users to the vendor -- who in all likelihood
> > cares more about non-Linux operating systems".. is also a very biased
> > statement/conjecture/opinion.
>
> Biased? Coming from a group of folks who have had to forcibly reverse
> engineer whole families of network chips because the vendors refused to
> release specs? (*cough*Broadcom*cough*) I'll go with the open source
> guys on this one...

My thoughts exactly.

> They originally wrote
> the bcm57xx driver, and only after having the open source guys eat their
> lunch with the open source driver (faster, lower overhead, better
> all-around performance) and having massive user (and OEM) backlash did
> they decide to switch to TG3.

Yup.


Undocumented hardware is bad, and having it for network functionality, which 
is very much security-critical, is even worse.

Cheers, Kuba