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I don't see if they found out the pinouts for the SFP connectors on the back. If those were documented, and the PCI-e lanes were documented, I could see someon

I don't see if they found out the pinouts for the SFP connectors on the back. If those were documented, and the PCI-e lanes were documented, I could see someone having some real fun with these building some bespoke fiber networking gear. SFP transceivers are just that- transceivers, they will spit out what you put in, so you could even build some interesting bespoke fiber optic signaling gear with these, and a PCIe backplane, or just solo.

random_duck 1y ago
The SFP connector pinnouts are in the pinnout section.
eqvinox 1y ago
> SFP transceivers are just that- transceivers, they will spit out what you put in This is only valid for ≤10Gbaud SFP(+) transceivers. SFP28 have CDR chips in them that will balk at doing anything other than supported rates, e.g. {25.78125, 26.5625, 27.952…} Gbd. Even supporting 10.3125Gbd is not a given. (You can put other things on them, but you need to match a supported rate.)