Missing mlx4, was Re: Unrecognized Inifiniband HCA

Grzegorz Junka list1 at gjunka.com
Thu May 10 09:12:04 UTC 2018


On 10/05/2018 09:06, Ben RUBSON wrote:
> On 10 May 2018 10:36, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>
>> Does it mean, that mlx4 is no longer compiled in the default kernel
>
> It has never been, but I think modules have been added recently, I can 
> remember HPS did it :)

Right, I meant that they are not being build as modules along with the 
default kernel, unlike mx5/en currently for example (which are available 
with the default FreeBSD installation) :)

>
>> Can I just compile the mlx4/en/ib kernel module without having to 
>> compile the whole kernel?
>
> Yes, here are at least the instructions for FreeBSD 11.0 which could 
> help you :
> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/mlx4
> make
> make install
> make clean
> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/mlxen
> make
> make install
> make clean
>

That looks easy, will give it a try. Thanks!
GrzegorzJ



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