Re: ixg and SFPs in NetBSD 10_RC1

[Stephen Degler <stephen%degler.net@localhost>]

I believe Intel cards only support a few sfp+ types.    On Linux I can only get them to use copper.

skd

Nov 26, 2023 5:42:37 PM Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>:

> On Sun, 2023-11-26 at 21:35 +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 
>> Would it be worth test booting a FreeBSD or Linux image to see if
>> they
>> work under that (to confirm if it's a driver issue)?
> 
> 
> That's an idea. And Debian 12 also reports the DAC as an unsupported
> SFP.
> 
> My working hypothesis is that since the Intel cards support 10GE and
> 1GE, the driver cares more about how the SFP describes itself. I'm
> pretty sure my Emulex and Mellanox cards only do 10GE and so the Linux
> drivers for those cards can afford to YOLO a bit more than the ixg
> driver.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lloyd