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ixgbe: Add support for 1Gbit DAC links

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ixgbe: Add support for 1Gbit DAC links

This is a relatively well known trick for the X520 (82599), can be
useful for testing and lab settings. It's not an official standard or
particularly common but ubiquitous Broadcom switch ASICs deal with it.

We'll call it 1000Base-KX because it's SerDes on the passive cable and
I don't think it's worth adding another media type for this.

Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: BBOX.io
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47352

(cherry picked from commit 48ddd1b9f88753c6875566fbb67bc622453e4993)

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Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>Authored on Thu, Nov 14, 6:33 AM
Reviewer
emaste
Differential Revision
D47352: ixgbe: Add support for 1Gbit DAC links
Parents
rGc66d2795bdb5: e1000: Improve igb(4) SFP support
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