[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 12/26/13, 7:50 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
> On 12/26/13, 7:45 PM, Scott Roberts wrote:
>> Saso,
>>
>> It has the following:
>>
>> Broadcom 57800 2x10Gb DA/SFP+ + 2x1Gb BT Network Daughter Card
>>
>> Broadcom 57810 Dual Port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ Network Adapter
>>
>> Total of (2) GigE and (4) 10Gb SFP+ ports.
> 
> Sorry to disappoint, but those 10Gb parts aren't and probably never will
> be supported. Unfortunately, Broadcom has a bad habit of shipping binary
> blobs only, so there's no way we could even port over support from other
> platforms (as we're doing with Intel hardware).

Minor correction here. It appears the tg3 Linux driver *is* open-source,
so provided that you can get Broadcom to give it a liberal-enough
license to let us include it in Illumos, you might be able to port it to
Illumos. FreeBSD, which is the source of many drivers that Illumos ports
over, sadly, doesn't seem to support it either.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso