Mellanox ethernet in Ampere eMAG system

[Dave Cottlehuber]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, at 00:58, Greg V wrote:
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> > > I am installing FreeBSD CURRENT on an Ampere eMAG (Lenovo HR330A). The kernel can't find a driver for two of the ethernet ports. Linux sees them as mlx5, and FreeBSD has a driver by that name in sys/dev/mlx5. Is there a file I need to tweak to get a driver bound?

Hi John,

I used this config[1] & loader.conf[2] 16 December 2009 for converting an ubuntu Ampere over to FreeBSD, networking worked just fine.

However the latest FreeBSD snapshot panics[3] at boot, hopefully you have better luck.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/dch/399de5ec06b424ae75d73cdbd4fb3420#file-depenguinator-sh-L174-L197
[2]: https://gist.github.com/dch/399de5ec06b424ae75d73cdbd4fb3420#file-depenguinator-sh-L148-L164
[3]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243508

Cheers,
Dave