OmniOS and Pentium-D 1508: Does the on-chip 10GbE NIC work?

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tic226

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Recently i decided to switch my storage server to ZFS with napp-it and OmniOS but realised my Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN is not supported by OmniOS and was out to buy an Intel based card. However, i stumbled upon the Supermicro X10SDV-2C-7TP4F and after the drooling stopped i decided that i must have one, it suits my requirements perfectly. But that board doesn't have an external Intel based 10GbE controller, the NIC is on the CPU/SoC (Pentium-D 1508).
Does anyone know if OmniOS works with that one?
I've read about (initial) problems with Intel X... based NICs and just want to make sure that the OS supports the on-chip NIC of the 1508.
 

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Thank you!
Do you know where to find more info about that? The mainboard datasheet says the 10Gb NIC is on the D1508 but the CPU datasheet only lists a 1Gb controller.
 

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This board edition has 2 x 10G, 2 x 1G and a 16port LSI HBA
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-2C-7TP4F
Yes but something is missing here. According to Supermicro the 10GbE connections come directly from the SoC (D1508), not an onboard NIC. But there's nothing about that in the 500+ page datasheet of the D1500 SoC family.
The mainboard's manual (MNL-1858.pdf) has a block diagram which shows some kind of PHY (CS2447) for the 10GbE interfaces but according to the photos and descritptions in the manual even that part is missing on the X10SDV-2C-7TP4F and it's only a PHY anyway. Something's wrong with the documentation.