broadcom 57710 support

Attila Nagy bra at fsn.hu
Tue Jul 21 13:08:26 UTC 2009


Barney Cordoba wrote:
>> Any one knows if there is any near plan to develop drivers
>> for
>>
>> network cards based on broadcom NetXtereme II 57710
>>
>> 10 GbE controller?
>>
>> -----------------------
>> best regards
>> Hooman Fazaeli
>>     
>
> Ok, I'll bite. What is so special about this particular part that you 
> simply must use it in your 10GbE server?
>
>   
A possible cause -at least for me- is that HP switched from the Gigabit 
Broadcoms for these 10GE versions. So newer machines (for example the HP 
BL460c G6) come with Broadcom 57711 instead of the 57xx ones (supported 
by bge and bce).

FreeBSD ran very well on HP machines, it would be good if this could 
continue.


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