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Drop goals and open-questions docs, cut PTP from the appliance kernel

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## Where the code is right now
**The committed tree is the X520 product implementation**: AF_PACKET datapath with read-time rate buckets and the backward excess-fill smear (nics/x520/ — rate is a headline, never a verdict; `smearWindow` 4 buckets = 64 ms display latency, resize after measuring the stall distribution: open-questions), the mixed FS+Wiitek diagnostics with the BCM ECD length path, `testDriver` = ixgbe. No hardware-timestamp machinery anywhere. The CX-5 is retired (nics/connectx-5/, "Status") and the E810 bit-bang investigation with it (nics/e810/).
**The committed tree is the X520 product implementation**: AF_PACKET datapath with read-time rate buckets and the backward excess-fill smear (nics/x520/ — rate is a headline, never a verdict; `smearWindow` 4 buckets = 64 ms display latency, resize after measuring the stall distribution), the mixed FS+Wiitek diagnostics with the BCM ECD length path, `testDriver` = ixgbe. No hardware-timestamp machinery anywhere. The CX-5 is retired (nics/connectx-5/, "Status") and the E810 bit-bang investigation with it (nics/e810/).
## Stashes
None. Every parked experiment is distilled into docs and its code dropped: the AF_XDP conversion in xdp.md, the CX-5 Wiitek-pair implementation in nics/connectx-5/ (including the MCIA gateway constants), the phydiag campaign across nics/e810/, nics/x710/, modules/fs/ and modules/fibergaga/.
Every parked experiment is distilled into docs and its code dropped — no stashes, nothing outside the repo: the AF_XDP conversion in xdp.md, the CX-5 Wiitek-pair implementation in nics/connectx-5/ (including the MCIA gateway constants), the phydiag campaign across nics/e810/, nics/x710/, modules/fs/ and modules/fibergaga/.
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## Bench driver
- **Patched ixgbe, bench build** (`kernel/ixgbe-sff/`, full driver source tracked; build artifacts gitignored) — out-of-tree module for the dev host: the product patch plus the bench-only extras (`reg_ops` value readback, `ts_bench`); `./load-ixgbe` rebuilds + swaps the module with `allow_unsupported_sfp=1`. The product subset (raw I2C + `sff_i2c`, ETQF steering, FCoE slot guard) is versioned at `kernel/ixgbe-sff.patch` and applied by `./mkimage` to every appliance kernel build — apply fails loudly when stable moves under it; port the patch then. Details: nics/x520/. Nothing else lives outside the repo; the retired diagnostics campaigns are distilled in these docs and their code is deleted.
- **Patched ixgbe, bench build** (`kernel/ixgbe-sff/`, full driver source tracked; build artifacts gitignored) — out-of-tree module for the dev host: the product patch plus the bench-only extras (`reg_ops` value readback, `ts_bench`); `./load-ixgbe` rebuilds + swaps the module with `allow_unsupported_sfp=1`. The product subset (raw I2C + `sff_i2c`, ETQF steering, FCoE slot guard) is versioned at `kernel/ixgbe-sff.patch` and applied by `./mkimage` to every appliance kernel build — apply fails loudly when stable moves under it; port the patch then. Details: nics/x520/.
## Every boot