This driver supports 10-gigabit Ethernet cards based on the Solarflare Communications Solarstorm SFC4000 and SFC9000-family controllers. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be called sfc.
This exposes the on-board flash memory as MTD devices (e.g. /dev/mtd1). This makes it possible to upload new firmware to the NIC.