Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-22 Thread H.Fazaeli
Nothing actually special. They are one of few 10GbE expansion cards supported on IBM blade servers. See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/technotes/tips0688.pdf Barney Cordoba wrote: --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: From: Hooman Fazaeli Subject: broadcom 57710 support To

Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-22 Thread H.Fazaeli
Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:52:53PM +0430, H.Fazaeli wrote: Is there any near plan to develop drivers for network cards based on broadcom NetXtereme II 57710 10 GbE controller? Do you plan to help somehow with driver development? No. I just plan to use th

Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-21 Thread Attila Nagy
Barney Cordoba wrote: 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). I wouldn't use a "new" server tha

RE: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-21 Thread David Christensen
> Is there any near plan to develop drivers for network cards > based on broadcom NetXtereme II 57710 10 GbE controller? I have written a driver to support the 57710/57711/57711E parts, bxe(9), but I haven't released it as I haven't been able to get much testing mileage on it. The biggest challe

Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-21 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Attila Nagy wrote: > From: Attila Nagy > Subject: Re: broadcom 57710 support > To: "Barney Cordoba" > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Hooman Fazaeli" > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 8:51 AM > Barney Cordoba wrote: > >> Any

Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-21 Thread Attila Nagy
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 m

broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-19 Thread H.Fazaeli
Is there any near plan to develop drivers for network cards based on broadcom NetXtereme II 57710 10 GbE controller? -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352

Re: broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-19 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: > From: Hooman Fazaeli > Subject: broadcom 57710 support > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 5:08 AM > > Any one knows if there is any near plan to develop drivers > for > > network cards base

broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-19 Thread Hooman Fazaeli
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 ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

broadcom 57710 support

2009-07-18 Thread H.Fazaeli
Is there any near plan to develop drivers for network cards based on broadcom NetXtereme II 57710 10 GbE controller? -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 _