As far as I know GSO should not depend on the ethernet driver. The basic idea is that protocol layers don't handle segments (and memory buffers) separately (it's just SW side improvement). When 10K segments needs to be handled per second (due to 1500 bytes MTU) even that matters a lot (if it can be reduced a bit). I don't know if Broadcom managed to break that.Originally Posted by theMIROn
The most important question related to the ethernet driver if it has so poor support for various offload features because of the old kernel version or because of the HW's inability. Too bad that there is no documentation for this...
It's a bit weird that Broadcom produced a driver for a kernel version that pre-dates the announcement of the chip-set by one year and has not released anything new since that. Is it really so?
