freebsd stable - Sep 2008 - regarding 1 Gig Chelsio SFP support

Reposting on stable mailing list(FreeBSD 6.X):

 We have chelsio T304 1 Gig card which supports Fiber SFP. I have already
 asked from chelsio guys for its Driver support on FreeBSD and still
 waiting for reply. Just wondering if anybody could let me know about
 T304's Driver support on FreeBSD 6.x .

 One more question, because we use third party SFPs (finsar, picolight
 etc) so do we need to download SFP's drivers also or NIC (Ethernet MAC)
vendor's
 device driver should already have that support?

Thanks,
Satendra

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Satendra Pratap
<Satendra.Pratap@citrix.com> wrote:
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> We have chelsio T304 1 Gig card which supports Fiber SFP. I have already
> asked from chelsio guys for its Driver support on FreeBSD and still
> waiting for reply. Just wondering if anybody could let me know about
> T304's Driver support on FreeBSD.
>
> One more question, because we use third party SFPs (finsar, picolight
> etc) so do we need to download SFP's drivers also or NIC vendor's
> device driver should already have that support?
Kip Macy <kmacy@...> is the maintainer of drivers for some Chelsio
hardware. If you are attempting to use the hardware on FreeBSD 6.x of
7.x then ask in the freebsd-stable mailing list, otherwise ask in
freebsd-current.

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Satendra Pratap wrote:
> Reposting on stable mailing list(FreeBSD 6.X):
>
>  We have chelsio T304 1 Gig card which supports Fiber SFP. I have already
>  asked from chelsio guys for its Driver support on FreeBSD and still
>  waiting for reply. Just wondering if anybody could let me know about
>  T304's Driver support on FreeBSD 6.x .
>
>  One more question, because we use third party SFPs (finsar, picolight
>  etc) so do we need to download SFP's drivers also or NIC (Ethernet
MAC) vendor's
>  device driver should already have that support?
>
> Thanks,
> Satendra
>   
If it's supported, it's been supported by 6.x since 6.3 according to the
cxgb(4)
man page.  I couldn't cross-reference "T304" on the chelsio web
site,
but perhaps
it's based on the T3 chipset and will "just work" :)

Follow the instructions in the man page with a BSD 6.3 machine to see if 
it works.

If it doesn't, please repost the output of lspci -v here so we can see 
if it's a card
that should work, but doesn't.

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