Sun Neptune NIU support

[Kip Macy]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Peter Jeremy
<peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> I have a Sun X4447A quad GigE card that I would like to use with
> FreeBSD.  It is supported by Solaris nxge(7D) and Linux niu.  The
> PCIid is 0x108e[Sun] 0xabcd.
>
> Whilst there's a nxge(4) driver in FreeBSD, this appears to be for
> a totally different NIC.
>

It is for a neterion card.

> Is anyone working on a FreeBSD driver for this card?
>
Back when I had time I asked for the docs. They were not forthcoming.
I don't know if they're available now. Marvell owns the IP rights.


> (Note that whilst I want to use the card in a PC, I believe the
> embedded NIC in the Sun T-2 is the same device).

It is largely, although I I don't know if the programming interface is
the same. The NIU is documented in the same PRM as the T2.