1.\" Copyright (c) 2016 Mellanox Technologies 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS `AS IS' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd March 1, 2017 26.Dt MLX4IB 4 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm mlx4ib 30.Nd "Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE/40GbE network adapter driver" 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32To compile this driver into the kernel, 33place these lines in your kernel configuration file: 34.Bd -ragged -offset indent 35.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUXKPI" 36.Cd "device mlx4" 37.Cd "device mlx4ib" 38.Ed 39.Pp 40To load the driver as a module at run-time, 41run this command as root: 42.Bd -literal -offset indent 43kldload mlx4ib 44.Ed 45.Pp 46To load the driver as a 47module at boot time, place this line in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50mlx4ib_load="YES" 51.Ed 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53Mellanox ConnectX adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect 54(VPI) provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect 55solution for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and 56Embedded environments. 57Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional 58services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve 59significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion 60time and lower cost per operation. 61.Sh HARDWARE 62The 63.Nm 64driver supports the following network adapters: 65.Pp 66.Bl -bullet -compact 67.It 68Mellanox ConnectX-2 (IB) 69.It 70Mellanox ConnectX-3 (IB) 71.El 72.Sh SUPPORT 73For general information and support, 74go to the Mellanox support website at: 75.Lk http://www.mellanox.com/ . 76.Pp 77If an issue is identified with this driver and a supported network adapter, 78please email the specific information to 79.Aq Mt freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com . 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr mlx4en 4 , 82.Xr ifconfig 8 83.Sh HISTORY 84The 85.Nm 86device driver first appeared in 87.Fx 9.0 . 88.Sh AUTHORS 89.An -nosplit 90The 91.Nm 92driver was written by 93.An Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com> . 94