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Subject: Re: svn commit: r326169 - in head: . contrib/ofed lib/libc/locale
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To: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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On 11/24/17 16:00, Mark Johnston wrote:
> Are there non-trivial interoperability issues between mthca and the
> updated OFED stack? If so, could you describe them? If not, I would
> strongly prefer to retain the mthca driver, as Isilon still has plenty
> of hardware making use of it.

Hi,

There are no technical reasons except Mellanox hasn't focused on the 
mthca driver in this upgrade. With little effort you should be able to 
pull libmthca and the mthca driver from the mentioned sources and make 
it work.

--HPS