[elrepo] Support for older Mellanox network cards in RHEL 8.

[Phil Perry]

Brilliant. Thank you for the feedback. I will move packages from testing 
to the main elrepo repository

Thanks,

Phil

On 17/04/2020 23:40, Jeremy Reben wrote:
> Thank you so much for the work, that seems to do it.
> I have the speed I am expecting and it works.
> 
> You guys have saved another perfectly good piece of hardware from the 
> junk pile.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:23 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org 
> <mailto:phil at elrepo.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 17/04/2020 18:18, Phil Perry wrote:
>      > On 17/04/2020 00:33, Jeremy Reben wrote:
>      >> It appears that didn't work. I don't suppose there is a GEN1
>     option is
>      >> there?
>      >> That device still doesn't show a kernel device driver after
>     rebooting.
>      >> lsmod shows the elrepo mlx drivers, but nothing loaded, no
>     dmesg, no
>      >> nothing.
>      >> Is that driver supporting those device ids?
>      >> Did I need to do something else to enable it loading beyond dnf
>     install?
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > Hi Jeremy,
>      >
>      > Thanks for the feedback. Obviously something more is required.
>     Let me
>      > have a more in depth look at what Red Hat did to disable your
>     device and
>      > I'll have another go for you. I'll post back here when I have
>     another
>      > version for you to test.
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
>      > Phil
>      >
> 
>     Fixed version uploaded to testing repository for you to try:
> 
>     kmod-mlx4-4.0-2.el8_1.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> 
>     Should be available on the mirror sites shortly.
> 
>     For some reason I've not yet fathomed out, the definition of
>     MLX4_CORE_GEN2 in the Makefile did not/is not working, so for now I've
>     just commented out the #ifdef statement in the source code.
> 
>     I've performed a quick test install, and modinfo now lists your pci_id
>     so we should be good to go:
> 
> 
>     $ modinfo mlx4_core
>     filename:
>     /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64/weak-updates/mlx4/mlx4_core.ko
>     version:        4.0-0
>     license:        Dual BSD/GPL
>     description:    Mellanox ConnectX HCA low-level driver
>     author:         Roland Dreier
>     rhelversion:    8.1
>     srcversion:     7C614DAF883104426BEE53E
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001010sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Fsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000100Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001009sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001008sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001007sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001006sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001005sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001004sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001003sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00001002sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000676Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006746sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006764sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000675Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006372sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006750sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006368sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000673Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006732sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006354sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d0000634Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>     alias:          pci:v000015B3d00006340sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> 
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