svn commit: r291170 - head/share/man/man4

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 11/23/15 09:44, NGie Cooper wrote:
>
>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 00:38, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/23/15 09:35, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Strictly speaking, mlx5 and mlx5en is not under OFED any more, and the
>>> manual page should be installed by default.
>>>
>>> --HPS
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe for 10-stable it will be under the OFED option, but not for 11-current.
>

Hi,

> Hmm.. does this have to do with the linuxkpi module?

Yes, the linuxkpi module is now standalone and outside OFED. OFED 
mostly is related to infiniband support at the moment and only needed 
for that.

>
> Also, technically mlx5 references files in ofed:
>
> sys/modules/mlx5/Makefile:CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR}/../../ofed/include

We use one or two header files from there. No C-files. Does this cause 
any problems for you?

In 10-stable it will be possibly be different, because the LinuxKPI 
resides under sys/ofed still.

> Whether or not this is a typo is a good question *shrugs*.
> I tried building the mlx4/mthca modules on vanilla FreeBSD and ran into some minor speed bumps due
> to changes in module dependencies and options; options LINUXCOMPAT was one of the items
 > — mlxen instead of mlx4en was another minor inconsistency that didn’t 
make sense…

This is mostly for historical reasons.

--HPS