FreeBSD 9.x/10.x-RELEASE Hardware Notes

[Meny Yossefi]

Hi,

We have noticed that Mellanox is not included among the NIC vendors providing a FreeBSD 9.x,10.x (and above) driver.
For example: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/hardware.html

Mellanox has a fully supported Eth and IB driver for ConnectX-2,3 NICs under sys/ofed.

Please add the following:

[i386,amd64] The mlx4(4) driver supports the following network adapters (IB, Eth):<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>

*         ConnectX-2 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>

*         ConnectX-3 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>



MLX4 man page:

MLX4(4)                                         FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                 MLX4(4)



NAME<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     mlx4 -- Device driver for Mellanox ConnectX 10Gb/40Gb/56Gb network adapters



SYNOPSIS<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your

     kernel configuration file:



                    options  OFED

                    options  IPOIB_CM

                    device  ipoib

                    device  mlx4ib

                    device  mlxen



     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the

     following line in loader.conf(5)<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader.conf&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>:



                    mlx4_load="YES"

                    ibcore_load="YES"

                    mlx4ib_load="YES"

                    ipoib_load="YES"

                    mlxen_load="YES"



DESCRIPTION<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>



    Mellanox ConnectX adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) provide the highest performing and

    most flexible interconnect solution for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing,

    and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications,

    transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance

    improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.





HARDWARE<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     The mlx4 driver supports the following network adapters:



     +o            Mellanox ConnectX-2 (IB, ETH)

     +o            Mellanox ConnectX-3 (IB, ETH)





SUPPORT<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     For general information and support, go to the Mellanox website at:

     http://www.Mellanox.com/ or E-Mail at freebsd-drivers at mellanox.com<mailto:freebsd-drivers at mellanox.com>.



SEE ALSO<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     ifconfig(8)<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>



AUTHORS<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html#end>

     The mlx4 driver was written by freebsd-drivers at mellanox.com<mailto:freebsd-drivers at mellanox.com>.




Thanks,<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>
Meny Yossefi | SW Engineer | FreeBSD Team
Mellanox Technologies Ltd
Work: +972-74-7129121, Cell: +972-52-8379557<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE>