Calling nxge(4) users

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> 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
>

Just for the record, Neterion was acquired by Exar, an old-line hybrid IC
company in 2010 and Exar was acquired last year by MaxLinear. Looks like
Exar bought them for some of their tech and killed off the Ethernet
products.
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