# [OmniOS-discuss] Mellanox 40gbe adapters

Grant Albitz GAlbitz at albitz.biz
Mon Jan 21 14:45:19 EST 2013

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    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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