On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >There are mentions of 82598 10GbaseT working, I don't see why > >82599 10GbaseT wouldn't work off hand. > > That could well be, but I learn many years ago to do my homework > first on hardware support with OpenBSD and even if that may well be > possible, it doesn't make it so however. It's a bit pricey to find > out if yes or no that would work, so that's why I asked first if > someone n the know might have one first here. > > The analogies is the same, they have 82574 working, so why not the > 82576 right? But it is not working as well and hardware wanted was > fro the 82576 as well as for the 82580. The 82580 was taken care of > a few weeks ago based on feedback on misc@.
The 82599ES and 82599EB are essentially the same chip, it should work fine and if not I expect it will only need minor changes. ix still needs to be introduced to ifmedia properly though so the media state may not be shown properly but this is a problem shared by everything supported by ix and the link will still work. The 82576 is quite different to 82574 it is closer in design to the ix chips (as is the 82575). The 82580 is almost malicously different to other em chips and is the source of some pain to me. I have parts of it working but not all of it.
