Saturday, December 3, 2011

e1000 network card info

http://developer.intel.com/products/ethernet/resource.htm?s1=all&s2=82541PI&s3=Datasheet#s1=Gigabit%20Ethernet&s2=all&s3=all

e1000 network card model:
82540EM
82541PI
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Small difference between 82540EM and 82541PI




1. The default internal buffer size is different

82540EM : 16KB

82541PI: 24 KB




2. 82540EM can configure MSI control register at PCI configuration space, but 82541PI is a read only register

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