[openib-general] RDMA enabled NICs- newbie

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Mon May 15 09:41:23 PDT 2006


Ian Brown wrote:
> Are there Etherenet NICS in the market (or will there be soon such nics)
> such NICs which are RDMA nics (RDMA enabled NICs)?
> And in case the answer is positive - does linux kernel has support
> for such nics?

The Linux kernel does not have support for RNICs at this time, but there is 
active work to add it.  There are RNICs that exist, but I'm not sure that any of 
the companies that made them still exist.  There are a couple of RNIC developers 
on the list who can provide more details.

- Sean



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