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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: mlx5 under FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:38:55 +0100
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15/11/2018 17:48, Mit Matelske:
> Is anyone working to include support for the mlx5 PMD under FreeBSD?

I think Stephen (Cc) looked at it.

> I've started down this road by building Linux compatibility layers for the required Netlink and Ethtool calls in the driver, but would gladly accept help and advice from those much more knowledgeable then myself!

Cc also mlx5 maintainers.

> Though not important, why did Mellanox build a PMD that relied on the kernel driver being in place unlike most other PMDs? 

Because it allows to choose which flows go to DPDK and which ones
are processed by the kernel.
Actually, you should ask why other PMDs don't have this feature ;)