The ixgb driver was used only briefly by one sub family of devices in the first half of the 2000s. It's not a power efficient card with a massive on board xenpak. The driver saw little specific (not API/treewide stuff) maintenance post FreeBSD 5 in which the last real intentional commit directly on the driver was by someone admitting they didn't have a card but spotting a bunch of errors in the driver. It's unlikely the driver is suitable for commercial use as it stands, and I wouldn't trust it in a home server.
If someone actually uses ixgb and sends me one I will flatten it into iflib ixgbe. You can get one for $250 here :o) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-PRO-10GbE-SR-PCI-X-PXLA8591SR-Server-Adapter-/110895948350 Otherwise I propose it be removed in HEAD, which gives a generous deorbiting period of September 30, 2021 in stable/11. Regards, Kevin _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
