Intel® PRO/1000 Family Gigabit Ethernet Driver

History

Version 0.4, 2005-01-31

• Finally a BeBits release. Should be very stable. Have fun.
• Small code cleanup, but no bugfixes since 0.3, as none were found.

Version 0.3, 2004-05-24

• Replaced all occurences of spin() by snooze(), this reduces CPU utilization.
• Restarting transmit is no longer done by the event handler, and has been integrated into device write hook function.
• Huge cleanup of debugging code.
• Added a settings file that can be used to force a MTU size. This is useful to solve DSL upload problems for users of BeOS R5 with net_server.
• This version is stable and has been included in Zeta RC3 and newer.

Version 0.2, 2004-05-10

• Implemented timers to improve debugging support.
• Link change interrupts, which get executed when the network cable is connected or disconnected, are now properly handled outside of interrupt context. In other words, it no longer crashes when attaching the cable.
• Function calls of em_start() are no longer called from the interrupt handler. No longer crashes under heavy load.

Version 0.1, 2004-05-04

• First release, only handed out to a very small number of selected beta testers.
• This version is quite unstable due to interupt handling problems, it may crash when the network cable is connected or disconnected.
• This driver has been ported from the FreeBSD source code.