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From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:46:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: Client Networking Issues / NIC Lab
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:22 AM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@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.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans

[0] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18856
[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19433