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
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