QLogic IBA7322 QDR InfiniBand HCA on 10.3-RELEASE

[Justin Clift]

On 30 Apr 2016, at 12:35, Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/16 05:56, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 30 Apr 2016, at 10:06, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
>>> On 04/30/16 09:54, Vinícius Ferrão wrote:
>>>> Hello guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m playing with Inifinband for the first time on FreeBSD and I already have problems with it. I’ve got a machine with this card in specific and I’m trying to use this card without any success.
>>>> 
>>>> pciconf -lv outputs this:
>>>> root at freebsd1:~ # pciconf -lv | grep -i Qlogic -A3 -B1
>>>> none17 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x0c0600 card=0x73221077 chip=0x73221077 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>>>     vendor     = 'QLogic Corp.'
>>>>     device     = 'IBA7322 QDR InfiniBand HCA'
>>>>     class      = serial bus
>>>> 
>>>> So at least the system is aware of the card, but I can’t see it on dmesg, so something is missing. Drivers? Support? Kernel Module?
>>>> 
>>>> I came across this webpage https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand and cannot find the card on the table of supported hardware, so at this point I started to believe that the card is just unsupported.
>>>> 
>>>> But here we are on the mailing list, to see if anyone can help.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Try loading qlxgb or qlxgbe.
>> Hmmm, between them, the man pages for qlxgb and qlxgbe say they support:
>> 
>>  * QLogic 3200 series (qlxgb)
>>  * QLogic 8200 series (qlxgb)
>>  * QLogic 8300 series (qlxgbe)
>> 
>> Should we add them to the "hardware support by release" table?
>> 
>> Vinícius, with your card, do you know the exact model number?  IBA7322
>> seems to be the controller chip on the card itself, not the adapter model
>> number, so it's hard to tell which series it belong too.
>> 
>> Saying that from looking through the QLogic IB Adapters PDF:
>> 
>>   http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/78254/Install_Guide_QLogic_IB_Adapters_A.pdf
>> 
>> Page 3-5 mentions it, as well as Figure 3-1 on that same page. :)
> 
> I'm not seeing any mention of Infiniband support in the 3200 or 8x00 series cards.  They look to be strictly 10 GBE.

Ahhh, that explains a few things then. :)

+ Justin

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