[haiku-development] Re: FreeBSD network drivers

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:51:08 +0200

On 07/04/2015 08:45, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:

mån 6 apr. 2015 kl 23:14 skrev Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Am 06/04/2015 um 10:36 schrieb Adrien Destugues:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:22:26AM +0200, Ithamar Adema wrote:
Is there any other reason then time/effort that we're tracking FreeBSD
9.x
instead of 10.x for the network driver compatibility layer?
An update would be very welcome at any rate.


IIRC FreeBSD 10 network is tickless, which would help us save power.
Networking timer interrupts are one of the big energy wasters.

Yay :)

Maybe we could set up some regression testing with the various QEMU NICs
at least:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Devices/Network

François.

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