Kernel modules

[Jason Bacon]

That's *about* right.  Unfortunately, I remotely rebooted this afternoon 
and the server didn't come back online, so I can't provide any more 
details until next week.

To continue the conversation, though, I'm wondering if it's possible yet 
to set up IB without a buildkernel + buildworld.  Last I checked, it was 
still necessary to do a buildworld with WITH_OFED=yes in /etc/src.conf, 
even if using kernel modules, but there are at least a few of us arguing 
that the userland tools should support IB by default.  I think the risk 
to stability is minimal.

Ultimately, in order to use OFED with stock FreeBSD systems in the data 
center, many of us will need to be able to run freebsd-update without 
breaking our IB config.  It's not practical to do a buildworld and 
possibly a buildkernel for routine security patches. It seems very close 
to feasible at this point to use FreeBSD for IB enabled HPC clusters, 
but routine maintenance will have to be made more efficient.

This is a topic I'd like to document on the wiki once I'm caught up on 
the current situation.

Cheers,

     Jason

On 04/21/2016 17:56, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2016, at 22:37, Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> It runs cleanly on my current 10.2-RELEASE system, but my ConnectX-3 card is not recognized.
> Just to clarify, the system is showing the ConnectX-3 card is on the
> PCI bus (eg through pciconf -lvV), but the driver isn't attaching to it?
>
> + Justin
>
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