Agreed. Please cull the ‘ixgb’ driver for similar reasons On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:05 PM Brooks Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 01:09:27PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > The nxge(4) driver for the Neterion Xframe-I and Xframe-II 10GbE > > > adapters has obvious bugs (by inspection) and it doesn't appear the > > > company exists any more. We'd like to see if there are any significant > > > users of this device and plan to remove it from FreeBSD-12 if not. > > > > > > -- Brooks > > > > Neterion has been acquired by exar. > > https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1173009 > > > > They have the datasheet for the Xframe-I here: > > https://www.exar.com/ds/xframedatasheet.pdf > > > > The cards appear to be readily avaliable on ebay. > > Given that most of these cards appear to have been PCI-X and the product > failed in the market, I'm not finding that compelling. One could buy > a Chelsio or Intel card for a similar price and have a supported driver. > > Unless someone has a significant deployment of these cards that will run > past the EOL of FreeBSD 11 (2021) this driver is a net negative. > > -- Brooks > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
