Installation

This chapter describes how to install and test FreeBSD package on a single host machine with NVIDIA adapter hardware installed.

• To install the driver software, kernel sources must be installed on the machine.

• To load mlx5, linuxkpi must be loaded as well.

  • Compile and install linuxkpi module under /sys/modules/linuxkpi.

Installing MLNX_EN Driver for FreeBSD

FreeBSD driver is no longer provided as a tarball. The EN driver can be obtained as part of the Kernel used. In order to load it, please run the following command:

            

            
#kldload mlx5en
        

The dependent mlx5 and linuxkpi modules will be loaded automatically.

Installing InfiniBand/RDMA Driver for FreeBSD

To load the IB/RDMA driver:

Get into the FreeBSD SRC tree (/usr/src).

            

            
# make buildworld WITH_OFED=YES
# make kernel WITH_OFED=YES
# make installworld WITH_OFED=YES
        

• Driver-related code located in:

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  sys/compat/linuxkpi/
  sys/dev/mlx5/
          

• Userspace related code located in

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  contrib/ofed/
  usr.sbin/mlx5tool/