qlnxe driver not in 13.0 arm64

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 3/30/21 8:31 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Daniel Morante via freebsd-stable wrote this message on Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 03:23 -0400:
>> I installed 13.0-RC3 ARM64 from the DVD ISO image
>> (FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso
>> <http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso>).
>> There is no "if_qlnxe" kernel model present on the install media, or on
>> the system after installing.
>>
>> Next I try to build a custom kernel. I add "device qlnxe" to the
>> configuration file as instructed in
>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=qlnxe&manpath=FreeBSD+13.0-current.
>>
>>
>> Running "make buildkernel KERNCONF=THUNDERX2" results in:
>>
>> config: Error: device "qlnxe" is unknown
>>
>> Is this module not available for ARM64 architecture?
> 
> Correct, this is only available for amd64.
> 
> HPS might have some more insight as to why it's amd64 only.
> 
> I have cc'd him.
> 
> It could be as simple as moving the qlnxe lines from files.amd64 to files,
> but it does appear that qnlxe depends upon the Linux compat layer, which
> may not be complete for arm64..
> 

The LinuxKPI works for ARM64 aswell. Maybe the QLNXE driver is not 
tested for ARM64.

--HPS