-----Original Message----- From: Benny Amorsen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:45 PM To: Brandeburg, Jesse Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: Unsupported SFP+ modules on 10Gbit/s X520-DA2 NIC?
Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]> writes: > For X520 adapters, the documentation[1] states that which SFP+ > adapters are/are not supported. Direct attach cables are also > supported. > > [1] > http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-030612.htm I can't believe that locked optics have now arrived on commodity hardware. I have been trying to migrate to all-Intel networking at work; that effort is certainly on hold now. That's up to you. There's "locked" and there's "locked". I'm surprised that Benny and Jesper haven't looked at the driver to see where the messages come from. We have a short list of optical modules that have been tested with our cards. The problem with standards is that there's always some wiggle room and you won't know if something really works until you try it. No matter how large the company, we are still constrained as far as what we can do in a day and testing every module we can find just wasn't one of the things that was approved for us to try. If you have an optical module you want to try, go ahead. You may have to modify the code a bit (last time I checked it was only in a couple of places) and if the module actually conforms to standards you could be OK. Sorry about the mail formatting. That's what the give us to use. Todd Fujinaka Technical Marketing Engineer LAN Access Division (LAD) Intel Corporation [email protected] (503) 712-4565 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
