The linux driver that works with the latest ptpd?

[Ronciak, John]

The current upstream igb driver does support 1588 with Kawela (82576) and will shortly support it for Barton Hills (82580) once those patches are accepted upstream.  Some already are in the 2.6.33 kernel.

Cheers,
John
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: John W. Linville [mailto:linville at tuxdriver.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:58 AM
>To: George Neville-Neil
>Cc: Ronciak, John; ptpd at lists.infradead.org
>Subject: Re: The linux driver that works with the latest ptpd?
>
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:37:23AM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 19:32 , Ronciak, John wrote:
>> 
>> > Which one are looking for?  The one going forward with the 
>Linux kernel is located on the infradread site.  The one what 
>worked with the IOCTL's is located on our Sourceforge site at: 
>http://e1000.sf.net
>> 
>> I believe that the code in:
>> 
>> ptp-igb-0.0.1/igb-ptp-1.2.44.9/src/igb_main.c
>> 
>> is the code that is compatible with the PTP Daemon on 
>infradread site?  I cannot find a copy of the driver on the
>> infradread site itself though.  Is it there as well?
>
>Probably not -- at least I don't recall putting one there. :-)  I
>probably should have a place to hold tarball snapshots as well for
>packaging purposes.
>
>John, are your changes actually merged into the kernel driver?
>I thought they were, but I don't know which release.  If not, is
>there a patch (or maybe a tarball) somewhere?
>
>John
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