Myricom Myri-10G 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
A family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express network adapters that Myricom began shipping in late 2005, widely used in high-performance computing clusters and low-latency financial trading networks through the late 2000s and 2010s. Myricom was acquired by CSP Inc. and later by Arista/Endace, which has since ended support for the line.
recommendation
Worth keeping but documenting its niche. The hardware vendor (now Arista/Endace) declared all Myricom adapters end-of-life and no longer recommended for new deployments, yet the driver still attracts upstream bugfixes and stable backports as recently as 2026, and Debian continues to ship the matching firmware package for legacy installs. That mix of dwindling hardware presence but ongoing maintenance argues for keeping it with a clear note that it serves existing deployments only.
repository signals
sources
- lore.kernel.org
The driver still receives upstream fix traffic and stable backports; a myri10ge bugfix was queued for stable on 2026-02-28.
- support.ariacybersecurity.com
Arista/Endace support states all Myricom network adapters are end-of-life, not recommended for new programs, and no longer supported.
- packages.debian.org
A current Debian package still ships firmware specifically for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters supported by the myri10ge driver.
- en.wikipedia.org
Myri-10G is an older generation product line that started shipping at the end of 2005, indicating legacy rather than modern hardware.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Real driver directory: local `rg` via shell found `MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Myricom 10G driver (10GbE)")`, PCI IDs, and firmware blobs in `myri10ge.c`. Lore evidence came from `lore_file_timeline` and `lore_activity` on `drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c`; they show recent activity through 2026, including a concrete stable backport URL above, which argues against deprecate/remove. A `lore_regex` subject search for removal talk timed out and was not retried; available lore results did not surface removal discussion. Market/deployment evidence came from web search: the vendor-side EOL notice says Myricom adapters are no longer recommended or supported, while Debian still carries `firmware-myricom`, suggesting residual legacy installs remain. Result: not for new deployments, but still maintained enough upstream to keep with annotation rather than deprecate.