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Linux 6.16 To Support The Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller

([Linux Networking] 2 Hours Ago Realtek RTL8127A)


On the networking front with the upcoming [1]Linux 6.16 merge window is supporting the new Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller.

The RTL8127A is a new ASIC from Realtek allowing 10Gb/s Ethernet networking. There doesn't appear to be many devices/boards yet employing the RTL8127 series networking controllers but the Linux support is prepped.

Queued this past week to the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch is [2]this patch directly from a Realtek engineer adding the RTL8127A controller support.

The RTL8127A 10Gb/s controller support is being tacked onto the existing r8169 Ethernet networking driver with less than 200 lines of new code.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.16

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=f24f7b2f3af9e008ded20f804d7829ee2efd43f2



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