[Bug 211528] Mellanox ConnectX-3 drivers compiled into the base system

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211528

Bug ID: 211528
Summary: Mellanox ConnectX-3 drivers compiled into the base
system
Product: Base System
Version: 11.0-STABLE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: freebs...@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: ben.r...@gmail.com

Hello,

Could it be possible to have Mellanox ConnectX-3 drivers compiled into the base
system please ?
We have systems with these network cards only, it's then quite tricky to
install the system from the ISO / use the live CD.
It would then be nice to have the drivers built-in.

Drivers are already in the source tree :
sys/modules/mlxen
sys/modules/mlx4

I'm not sure this is still possible for 10.3 (would require ISO rebuild), but
should be at least for 11 ?

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Ben

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Mark Linimon <lin...@FreeBSD.org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary|Mellanox ConnectX-3 drivers |[request] Mellanox
|compiled into the base |ConnectX-3 drivers compiled
|system |into the base system

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--- Comment #1 from Ben RUBSON <ben.r...@gmail.com> ---
As a test-case, I tried to do it myself, following this guideline :
https://community.mellanox.com/message/3506#comment-3506

I then added to my configuration :
options OFED
device mlxen

But kernel compilation ended-up with :
(...)
linking kernel.full
/usr/src/sys/ofed/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:84: undefined reference to
`linux_complete_common'
/usr/src/sys/ofed/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:480: undefined reference to
`M_KMALLOC'
(...)

Many many undefined references, all seem to come from
/usr/src/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include.

Did I miss something ?

Thank you !

Ben