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It's still in development at the moment. We'll see about the interface. But there are no plans to implement any segmentation offloads or TOE in Corundum, that will be left up to the network stack. However, scatter/gather DMA support is planned so that software GSO will work. Right now, most of the low-level twiddling is done from a user space app that directly accesses device registers. For a research device, that's fine, but that would obviously have to be improved for a commercial product.



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