[OmniOS-discuss] Mellanox 40gbe adapters

[Grant Albitz]

i havent purchased them yet, they do not even offer drivers on their site, i believe you need a support contract to even see what is available. I may hold off.
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From: Eric Sproul [esproul at omniti.com]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 2:33 PM
To: Grant Albitz
Cc: omnios-discuss
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Mellanox 40gbe adapters

Meant to include: sometimes, even though a driver doesn't attach to a
given piece of hardware, if it's sufficiently similar to a supported
part, one can often use update_drv(1M) to add more PCI devices to a
given driver.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
> Having no IB experience myself, I pinged the folks on #illumos and the
> consensus is that "no one knows."  There is support for some Mellanox
> controllers via hermon(7D) (http://illumos.org/man/7d/hermon) but
> beyond that it's "try it and see".
>
> I gather that Mellanox are not terribly cooperative with community
> projects (e.g. anything beyond Oracle Solaris).
>
> Let us know how it goes.
> Eric
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Grant Albitz <GAlbitz at albitz.biz> wrote:
>> I checked the HCL and the devices were not listed. I know they are rather
>> new I thought perhaps they were just omitted. Has anyone tried the
>> MCX314A-BCBT on omnios? If not is anyone aware of any 40gbe adapters that
>> are supported?
>>
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