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From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: SolarFlare 10GB card
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of =
a server.
>=20
> However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta.

If you look in the download[1], you'll see that the driver is named sfxge. =
It
was released in November 2011. This driver is already present in FreeBSD 9.=
1,
look at the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/sfxge.
So it seems like it is as much out of beta as any other driver. :-)

[1]: https://support.solarflare.com/index.php?view=3Dcategories&id=3D1847&o=
ption=3Dcom_cognidox)


Roland
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