Why have you stopped supporting the X520 Intel, ha?

Why is the X520 family not supported anymore? (link)
Where’s the Win11 support? Or the Ubuntu 24.04 or the Debian 12 support?

From Wikipedia, the X520 is a 2009-2010 product:



At the same time, the i350, which is a 1 gig family from the same era is still supported, while being a 2010-2011 product:


Why do we have to throw away server-grade 10 gig adapters when even today we have motherboards that come with craptastic 1 gig Realteks? Ha Intel?

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I think the answer here is because Intel wants you to upgrade and spend more $ on a new product. The i350 is probably still supported because they sold and marketed them for longer in the 1Gbits segment.

What does ‘support’ mean to you? Are you paying Intel an ongoing subscription to keep it working, or are you getting ‘this device is too old’ in from the ixgbe driver mainline Linux Kernel?

I don’t expect the initialisation code to regress in the ixgbe driver so that older devices aren’t usable. I have an X540 working with Debian 12 Bookworm via mainline Linux kernel and I will have to check pre-release Debian 13 Trixie. That pre-existing code shouldn’t disappear.

K3n.

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