From owner-freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org Thu May 26 13:07:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-infiniband@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EBAB4B3FF for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 13:07:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from msa1.earth.yoonka.com (yoonka.com [185.24.122.233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "msa1.earth.yoonka.com", Issuer "msa1.earth.yoonka.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DCB71D5F for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 13:07:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from crayon2.yoonka.com (crayon2.yoonka.com [192.168.1.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by msa1.earth.yoonka.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u4QD7WoS057615 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 13:07:32 GMT (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Subject: Re: InfiniBand hw support out of the box? To: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org References: <5746F418.1050105@gmail.com> From: Grzegorz Junka Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:07:32 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5746F418.1050105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Infiniband on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:07:35 -0000 Yeah, I agree, I don't quite understand why those modules aren't build with the generic kernel if so many other much less useful modules are still being build and shipped wit the generic kernel. It's quite a hassle to maintain custom kernels/modules on production servers. Grzegorz On 26/05/2016 13:03, Jason Bacon wrote: > > I think IB support in the generic kernel is unlikely any time soon, if > ever, but building the kernel modules only takes a few minutes. > Instructions are on the wiki in case you weren't aware: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand > > You still have to do a buildworld to update your userland tools, > though. I've made the argument that the userland tools could and > should be built with IB support now. It adds a trivial number of > files and only modifies a few binaries. > > This would allow someone to get IB support running in minutes instead > of hours, and would prevent freebsd-update from replacing ib-enabled > files with generic ones. > > Regards, > > Jason > > On 05/26/16 04:45, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >> Is there any InfiniBand card supported in FreeBSD by the generic >> kernel/modules without having to recompile kernel or compile kernel >> modules? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-infiniband >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-infiniband-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >