svn commit: r295828 - head/sys/dev/ixl

[Gleb Smirnoff]

  Eric,

  do you mean that this specific PCI ID goes to a certain device manufacturer
who is known to install only specific software on their devices?

Even in that case I don't see any improvement in removing the PCI IDs from
the driver. People could use these devices aftermarket, and install what
ever they want. Even if that is very very low probability, still having
working PCI IDs in the driver doesn't hurt anyone.

IMHO, once Intel drops official maintainership for some hw/sw, the code
shouldn't be deleted from FreeBSD, since community may willing to take
maintainership.

As was discussed, we need official support matrix of Intel published,
and anything that doesn't fit into the matrix is community supported.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:12:08PM +0000, Eric Joyner wrote:
E> The driver worked for the most part on the 20G hardware, but it's specific
E> hardware for an OEM that doesn't use FreeBSD.
E> 
E> The KX_A device ID never made it into any hardware.
E> 
E> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
E> 
E> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:33:51PM +0000, Eric Joyner wrote:
E> > E> Author: erj
E> > E> Date: Fri Feb 19 22:33:50 2016
E> > E> New Revision: 295828
E> > E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295828
E> > E>
E> > E> Log:
E> > E>   ixl(4): Remove unsupported device IDs.
E> > E>
E> > E>   There is no official support for 20G SKUs on FreeBSD, and the KX_A
E> > E>   device ID was never used.
E> >
E> > Did the driver attach but failed to work before?
E> >
E> > --
E> > Totus tuus, Glebius.
E> >

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Totus tuus, Glebius.