This is a latest development preview of aquantia's atlantic VmWare ESXi driver for AQtion family of PCIe multigigabit adapters. Please read technical details in README-esxi.txt
Notice this is an experimental software. For stable driver version please either visit http://www.aquantia.com or take the driver bundled with your linux kernel.
Being experimental, it has the following agreement and limitations:
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