[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 11/24/17 18:35, Mark Johnston wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:29:25PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >> On 11/24/17 18:22, Mark Johnston wrote: > >>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:09:25PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >>>> On 11/24/17 16:00, Mark Johnston wrote: > >>>>> Are there non-trivial interoperability issues between mthca and the > >>>>> updated OFED stack? If so, could you describe them? If not, I would > >>>>> strongly prefer to retain the mthca driver, as Isilon still has plenty > >>>>> of hardware making use of it. > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> There are no technical reasons except Mellanox hasn't focused on the > >>>> mthca driver in this upgrade. With little effort you should be able to > >>>> pull libmthca and the mthca driver from the mentioned sources and make > >>>> it work. > >>> > >>> In that case, could we please bring it back in to svn? It seems silly to > >>> remove a driver just because it's not being actively maintained: that > >>> isn't the bar for keeping drivers in FreeBSD, and I note that mthca is > >>> still present in Linux. If there is some work needed to get the kernel > >>> and userland components to compile again, I'm happy to do it; I just > >>> don't want to have to maintain an out-of-tree HCA driver when there's no > >>> good reason it can't stay in svn. > >>> > >> > >> Sure, but we probably want to put it into sys/dev/mthca instead of > >> sys/ofed/xxx . > > > > Ok. > > > >> Are you saying you want to pull it in yourself and make > >> it compile? > > > > I don't really *want* to, but I will if you don't. :) > > > > Let me discuss this at Mellanox first. I'll get back to you on Monday on > this topic.
Just to add some input I would also like to see the mthca drive continue to live as a pair of them is part of my test bed here. But, I can understand these are pretty old products, and that they can be replaced for a sub $20.00 price off of ebay. (I already have a collection of Connectx-3 cards supported by mlx4 drivers.) -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
