[HEADS UP] - OFED/RDMA stack update

Hans Petter Selasky
2018-03-17T20:03:40Z

On 03/17/18 20:52, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> Hold your horses.  Do you have confirmation from the affected party that
> the shims are adequate for them?  I have been waiting for that before
> looking at this branch.

Hi Navdeep,

Mellanox has received an API list from at least one party, and has taken
the action to support all the required APIs.

> Is the iw_cxgbe breakage a simple merge conflict as previously discussed
> or do the shims require driver changes?

It is a merge conflict. The code already compiles in 12-current.

> If they don't then it should be
> possible to drop the iw_cxgbe from head into this branch and it should
> just work, is that correct?

Yes, it shouldn't be too hard to do and I would appreciate if Chelsio
could throw some resources at this ASAP. I believe the new code will
benefit everyone using Infiniband/RoCE and iWarp with FreeBSD.

--HPS