On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:37:19AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > There are many other product lists, but starting with the two big broadcom > flavors here. I've had a dozen machines with bge, but none of them were listed > in the man page. I don't think these product lists are helpful. > > 1. If you have a device and want to know if it's supported, there's no reverse > mapping from product to driver. How do I know what driver supports my NC320m > nic? It's faster to plug it in and find out than to read every ethernet man > page looking for it. (And then plugging it in anyway after I don't find it > because these lists are perpetually out of date.) > > 2. If you have picked a driver and are trying to find a device, these are very > incomplete guides. Most of the devices aren't for sale anymore. Many of the > rest are now revision B or revision C and may or may not work. > > I think we are better off not maintaining such lists. We document the chip > (family) supported by the driver. Consult the spec sheet if you want to know > which chip is on your network card. > > There may be exceptional circumstances for some drivers, so I'm not planning > to > delete all the lists all at once, but deal with one family at a time. >
The last time I used it was when I looked up if the "Intel X540-T2" is an ix(4) - before I ordered it online. It is listed in the manpage, so I didn't bother asking other people or looking up the chipset. And it worked, of course. I think it is convenient for the most common devices and doesn't have to be a comprehensive list. Reyk > Index: bge.4 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/bge.4,v > retrieving revision 1.65 > diff -u -p -r1.65 bge.4 > --- bge.4 27 Jan 2015 01:38:53 -0000 1.65 > +++ bge.4 2 Dec 2015 11:25:17 -0000 > @@ -45,59 +45,7 @@ The > .Nm > driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x, > 571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x, 5776x and 5778x Gigabit Ethernet controller > -chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips, > -including the following: > -.Pp > -.Bl -bullet -compact > -.It > -3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -3Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX) > -.It > -3Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -Allied-Telesis AT-2972LX10/LC > -.It > -Fujitsu PW0G8GE1U (1000baseSX) > -.It > -Fujitsu PW0G8GE2U (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -Fujitsu PW008GE4 (1000baseSX) > -.It > -Fujitsu PW008GE5 (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -Fujitsu PW008QG1U (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC320T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC320m PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC370F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC370T PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC1020 PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7780 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP ProLiant NC7782 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX) > -.El > +chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips. > .Pp > The > .Nm > Index: bnx.4 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/bnx.4,v > retrieving revision 1.30 > diff -u -p -r1.30 bnx.4 > --- bnx.4 14 Sep 2014 00:17:09 -0000 1.30 > +++ bnx.4 2 Dec 2015 11:25:30 -0000 > @@ -44,28 +44,6 @@ The > .Nm > driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family which is made up of > the BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709, and BCM5716 Ethernet controller chips. > -Products using these controller chips include: > -.Pp > -.Bl -bullet -compact > -.It > -HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX) > -.It > -HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP Dual NC370i Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter > (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX) > -.It > -HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter > (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP NC374m PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter > (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP NC373T PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter > (10/100/1000baseT) > -.It > -HP NC382T PCI Express Dual Port server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) > -.El > .Pp > The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or > CNIC) > Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), > --
