Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:20:28 -0500 From: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net> To: Oded Shanoon <odeds@mellanox.com>, "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" <freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel module? Message-ID: <536A331C.50808@tds.net> In-Reply-To: <058596FC127BDB469D7D60F04E37C63F95E8B917@MTLDAG01.mtl.com> References: <5368ED57.5090701@tds.net> <058596FC127BDB469D7D60F04E37C63F95E8B917@MTLDAG01.mtl.com>
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Now I see, thanks.
It might be good to update the wiki with all the recent developments:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand
It looks pretty outdated, and it's the first thing that comes up on a
Google search for "freebsd infiniband". If nobody else is inclined to
do so, I'd be happy to do it myself assuming I can get write access.
Regards,
JB
On 05/06/14 23:39, Oded Shanoon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We (Mellanox) already did that in FreeBSD-10.0.
> You can go to sys/modules and compile + kldload the following modules (in that specific order): mlx4, ibcore, mlx4ib, ipoib.
>
> We are planning on refining it and break ib_core into smaller modules (ib_sa, ib_mad...) on our next commit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oded Shanoon
> OFED-FreeBSD Team Leader
> Mellanox Technologies, Raanana
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Bacon
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 5:13 PM
> To: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org
> Subject: Kernel module?
>
>
> Does anyone know if are any plans for converting the IB stack to a loadable kernel module? At present, freebsd-update will remove IB support if it updates the kernel, making it necessary to do another buildkernel following the updates.
>
> Certain other updates might necessitate a buildworld as well, which would also be nice to eliminate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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