Re: Infiniband status?

From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:18:01 +0400
Kip, good day.

Was just passing by, but found an interesting point?

Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:33:52AM +0000, Kip Macy wrote:
> To support IB you would need to implement the IB side
> of the OFA stack, finish user level RDMA support,  and talk one of the
> users of IB on FreeBSD (NetApp & Isilon) in to opening up the Mellanox
> driver for a recent card.

I was under impression that OFED provides drivers for Mellanox.  At
least I am using OFED 1.2 for Mellanox Arbel InfiniHost III, and I was
under impression that even ConnectX cards are supported by the 1.3.x as
well.  Particularily, the ofa_kernel component of OFED build provides
core, HW and ULPs kernel modules.

I think that OFED sources can be taken and ported (at least partially,
for example, the driver parts) to provide kernel drivers for the cards.
Am I missing something?
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