Commit a918356d authored by Jeff Garzik's avatar Jeff Garzik

Merge pobox.com:/garz/repo/netdev-2.6/ixgb

into pobox.com:/garz/repo/net-drivers-2.6
parents acee613c 118aee24
Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Family of Adapters
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September 13, 2004
November 17, 2004
Contents
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This file describes the Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Family
of Adapters, version 1.0.x. This driver includes support for Itanium(TM)2 and
EM64T systems.
of Adapters, version 1.0.x.
For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation
supplied with your Intel PRO/10GbE adapter. All hardware requirements listed
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Ethernet PAUSE frames.
RxDescriptors
Valid Range: 64-4096
Default Value: 1024
Valid Range: 64-512
Default Value: 512
This value is the number of receive descriptors allocated by the driver.
Increasing this value allows the driver to buffer more incoming packets.
Each descriptor is 16 bytes. A receive buffer is also allocated for
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