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.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd January 18, 2017 28.Dt MLX4IB 4 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm mlx4ib 32.Nd "Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE/40GbE network adapter driver" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34To compile this driver into the kernel, 35place the following lines in your 36kernel configuration file: 37.Bd -ragged -offset indent 38.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUXKPI" 39.Cd "device mlx4" 40.Cd "device mlx4ib" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43To load the driver as a module at run-time, 44run the following command as root: 45.Bd -literal -offset indent 46kldload mlx4ib 47.Ed 48.Pp 49To load the driver as a 50module at boot time, place the following lines in 51.Xr loader.conf 5 : 52.Bd -literal -offset indent 53mlx4ib_load="YES" 54.Ed 55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56Mellanox ConnectX adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect 57(VPI) provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect 58solution for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and 59Embedded environments. 60Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional 61services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve 62significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion 63time and lower cost per operation. 64.Sh HARDWARE 65The 66.Nm 67driver supports the following network adapters: 68.Pp 69.Bl -bullet -compact 70.It 71Mellanox ConnectX-2 (IB) 72.It 73Mellanox ConnectX-3 (IB) 74.El 75.Sh SUPPORT 76For general information and support, 77go to the Mellanox support website at: 78.Pa http://www.mellanox.com/ . 79.Pp 80If an issue is identified with this driver with a supported adapter, 81email all the specific information related to the issue to 82.Aq Mt freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com . 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr mlx4en 4 , 85.Xr ifconfig 8 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm 89device driver first appeared in 90.Fx 9.x . 91.Sh AUTHORS 92.An -nosplit 93The 94.Nm 95driver was written by 96.An Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com> . 97