From owner-freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org Fri Jun 16 20:08:45 2017 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 70E79D88035 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:08:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from navdeep@chelsio.com) Received: from stargate.chelsio.com (stargate.chelsio.com [12.32.117.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C79C6AB52 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from navdeep@chelsio.com) Received: from bora.asicdesigners.com ([10.192.160.75]) by stargate.chelsio.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v5GK8i6D014097; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:08:44 -0700 Received: from [10.192.166.0] (10.192.166.0) by bora.asicdesigners.com (10.192.160.75) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1156.6; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:08:44 -0700 Subject: Re: OFED update based on Linux kernel v4.9 To: Meny Yossefi , "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" References: From: Navdeep Parhar Message-ID: <76db1801-ad69-d4a0-606e-5d3a2c1e56a1@chelsio.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:08:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.192.166.0] X-ClientProxiedBy: bora.asicdesigners.com (10.192.160.75) To bora.asicdesigners.com (10.192.160.75) X-BeenThere: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Infiniband on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:08:45 -0000 We (Chelsio) will update the iWARP parts (iwcm OFED infrastructure, iw_cxgbe driver, userspace libcxgb4) in this projects branch. It will take us around 6 weeks for the overhaul, so it should be ready around end of July '17. Regards, Navdeep On 06/15/2017 06:21, Meny Yossefi wrote: > Hi, > > Enclosed you can find a link to the project with the updated code: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=319974 > > Notes: > > * First stage includes kernel side only where user space part is in progress > > * The code includes shared modules only with no vendor drivers > > * Most of the GPL only licensed parts coming from Linux were excluded with one exception of 'cq.c' which was re-implemented from scratch. > The code was tested by our legal department to make sure there is no licensing violation > > Regards, > Meny > > From: Meny Yossefi > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 6:47 PM > To: 'freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org' > Subject: OFED update based on Linux kernel v4.9 > > Hi, > > We (Mellanox) have started working on an OFED stack update based on Linux kernel v4.9 > We've decided to abandon our last update proposal, https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-infiniband/2016-March/000190.html, > based on MLNX OFED v3.2 as it wasn't generic enough. > This update will include changes in both kernel space (ib_core) and user space (libibverbs, librdmacm) with direct effect over vendor drivers. > Important note: Linux kernel v4.9 contains some GPL-only code sections. Those introduce new API towards ULPs and will be excluded in the update process. > > Best regards, > Meny Yossefi | SW Manager | FreeBSD Team > Mellanox Technologies Ltd > Work: +972-74-7129121, Cell: +972-52-8379557 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >