[OmniOS-discuss] Want Intel 40GbE NIC driver for Illumos

Dale Ghent daleg at omniti.com
Thu May 12 14:30:00 UTC 2016


No exact ETA, as both have just entered testing!

But yes, these will definitely be added into OmniOS, including r151014.

/dale

> On May 12, 2016, at 5:10 AM, Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
> 
> hi
> I saw this discussion at the illumos-dev list
> 
> I am very interested in the new drivers for Intel X550 and XL710.
> I have a switch (HP 5900) with QSFP+ and have ordered some XL710-QDA1 adapters for some testings.
> 
> Any Eta for these drivers in Illumos/ OmniOS beta?
> 
> 
> Gea
> 
> 
> Am 12.05.2016 um 00:11 schrieb Robert Mustacchi:
>> On 5/11/16 15:07 , Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> Question: were you able to test the 40GbE mac / dladm property support I
>>> added?
>> Unfortunately I've only had access to the 4x10 GbE parts, but I did wire
>> it up in the driver.
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Robert Mustacchi <rm at joyent.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> This adds the i40e driver which is the Intel XL710 controller. We've
>>>> been beating on this a fair bit in our lab and in a cluster from Intel.
>>>> While this driver is not 100% where I want it to be from the perspective
>>>> of rings, groups, etc. I think it is at a reasonable point where it'll
>>>> still be useful to quite a lot of folks.
>>>> 
>>>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/webrevs/5115/index.html
>>>> 
>>>> Please note any of the files in the core/ directory are from Intel and I
>>>> have not modified except for bugs that have been reported to Intel. Note
>>>> that this common code comes from FreeBSD drops.
>>>> 
>>>> Robert
>>>> 
>> 
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