[openib-general] RDMA enabled NICs- newbie

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Ian Brown wrote:

> Hello,
> google search for "RNIC driver" gives about 60 results.
> 
> 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?

There are a number of companies that have produced RDMA NICs (RNICs). 
To date, software support for these devices has not been accepted into 
the mainline Linux kernel.

The OpenFabrics project (formerly OpenIB) is been developing support 
for RNICs. This work is being done in a branch of the source tree:

 https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/iwarp/

This branch contains drivers for Ammasso AMSO1100 and Chelsio T3-based 
adapters with support for additional adapters possible in the future. 

The goal is to merge this work back into the OpenFabrics trunk and 
eventually submit it for inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel.