Calling nxge(4) users

[Kevin Bowling]

Agreed. Please cull the ‘ixgb’ driver for similar reasons

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:05 PM Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> 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
>