[OmniOS-discuss] infiniband

[Dan McDonald]

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:25:47 -0400
> Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Only older cards.
>> 
> By older cards do you the mean only 10 gbps cards?

I mean there's been no active development in IB on illumos.  Doesn't mean an older driver won't work, however, because...

>>> It is these cards I had in mind:
>>> Voltaire 500 EX-D Dual Port Host Channel Adapter PCIe 20Gbps DDR
>>> InfiniBand Card
>> 
>> Do you know the PCI ID of that card?  I can double-check, but I'm guessing the answer will be no.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
> prtconf -v from Solaris 11.1
> https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/connectx-vpi-infiniband-card-and-solaris-11-1.3211/

...buried in that output, I found a match:

-bash-4.3$ grep 15b3,634a /etc/driver_aliases 
hermon "pciex15b3,634a"
-bash-4.3$ 

So I'd give it a whirl.

Dan