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. :) _______________________________________________ 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"
