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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:29:41 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Calling nxge(4) users
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1s6uTNX11LsrzpY2FHBCaSXVWFhHs9b_t7_vjiKaKExdg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180325184032.GA42437@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <20180325184032.GA42437@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks@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.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683



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