[OmniOS-discuss] SolarFlare SFXGE with OmniOS

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 9/20/14, 1:14 AM, Mark wrote:
> On 20/09/2014 5:13 a.m., Dan McDonald wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
>>
>>> Is anybody using Solarflare 10G cards with OmniOS. I have a 2010
>>> vintage of Openindiana (yeah, I should really upgrade that - it's a
>>> test box) running with the Sol10 production sfxge driver and working
>>> flawlessly for years. It tried the sfxge package for Sol11 and for
>>> Sol10 on OmniOS r151012 (yeah, I know it's not quite ready) and it
>>> crashes and core dumps as soon as I send any traffic on the nic, even
>>> a ping.
>>>
>>> Curious if anybody else is using them and having luck?
>>
>> Without source you'll be out of luck.
>>
>> The Generic Lan Driver (GLDv3) interface is *slightly* different on
>> recent-vintage illumos.  A modern OI (like hipster) would likely
>> exhibit the same problems.  If you want Solarflare cards, you'll need
>> to get them to cough up the source.
>>
>> Dan
>>
> See https://www.illumos.org/issues/4057

Appears to have stalled despite an offer of help from Robert. Maybe it
wasn't production ready? Does anybody know if Rich published the source?
Maybe I can get it built so people with sfxge hardware can get testing.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso