Hello Édouard, On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 9:05 PM Edouard Gaulué <lis...@e-gaulue.com> wrote: > > I just received a brand new server with an Intel X710 T4L inside. I > hoped I could use it at 5GBaseT speed as claimed by Intel, but I couldn't. > > In fact, I run ESXi 6.7U3 on this new server and it looks it doesn't > support this speed (2.5G neither). I downloaded Intel driver source code > and discovered there was an incompatibility between 5GBaseT and DCB. But > then vmware support team, point me the driver used by ESXi is i40en and > not i40e. > > Are those drivers totally different? It looks to. Error strings found in > vmkernel.log couldn't be found in the source code. Is there any way to > get sources for i40en? For patching and rebuild. > > Any idea on who I should write to discuss with those i40en driver > maintainers? Here or totally out of scope?
DPDK provides userspace drivers for various nics. If you are looking at kernel drivers issues, then yes, your mail seems out of scope :-). Afaics, i40en is a VMware thing, so the solution is probably to continue with VMware support. I copied some Intel *DPDK* driver maintainers who might have a better idea. -- David Marchand
