Kyle Evans wrote: >On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:22 AM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowl...@kev009.com> >wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> [... snip ...] >> >> Tehuti Networks seems to have gone out of business. Probably not >> worth worrying about. >> > >That's unfortunate. I had a box of their 10G NICs and I got them to >put a driver up for review[0][1], but they weren't very responsive and >the existing codebase was in pretty rough shape. > >Beyond that, your #3 seems to be the most appealing. #2 could probably >work in the mid-to-long term, but we'd likely be better off >bootstrapping interest with solid community-supported drivers then >reaching out to vendors once we can demonstrate that plan field of >dreams can work and drive some substantial amount of business.
I'll admit to knowing nothing about it, but is using the linuxKPI to port Linux drivers into FreeBSD feasible? Obviously, given the size of the Linux community, it seems more likely that it will have a driver that handles many chip variants, plus updates for newer chips, I think. I do agree that having drivers that at least work for the basics (maybe no Netmap, TSO, or similar) for the commodity chips would make it easier for new adopters of FreeBSD. (I avoid the problem by finding old, used hardware. The variants of Intel PRO1000 and re chips I have work fine with the drivers in FreeBSD13/14.;-) Oh, and if TSO support is questionable, I think it would be better to leave it disabled and at least generate a warning when someone enables it, if it can be enabled at all. Good luck with it, rick Thanks, Kyle Evans [0] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18856 [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19433 _______________________________________________ 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
