Ixgbe: allow unsupported transceivers?

Apachez · October 3, 2025, 3:43pm

Also according to this:

scripts/package-build/linux-kernel/patches/ixgbe/0001-ixgbe-always-enable-support-for-unsupported-SFP-modu.patch

current

From a3ebb453f4a8c95fe3674d09646edb93946d450a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Breunig <christian@breunig.cc>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:17:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ixgbe: always enable support for unsupported SFP+ modules

---
 src/ixgbe_param.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ixgbe_param.c b/src/ixgbe_param.c
index bba03ae..3f29492 100644
--- a/src/ixgbe_param.c
+++ b/src/ixgbe_param.c
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ IXGBE_PARAM(LRO, "Large Receive Offload (0,1), default 0 = off");
  * Default Value: 0
  */
 IXGBE_PARAM(allow_unsupported_sfp, "Allow unsupported and untested "
-	    "SFP+ modules on 82599 based adapters, default 0 = Disable");
+	    "SFP+ modules on 82599 based adapters, default 1 = Enable");

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VyOS should default to have that flag enabled aka supporting 3rd party transceivers on intel drivers.