Feature #74659
Request to add oce driver support
Description
I have an emulex chipset HP NC550SFP 10gbe nic which i would like to use in my freenas build. The current version doesn't seem to include the drivers for it. Can you guys add it to the latest build?
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Updated by Dru Lavigne #2
Updated by Alexander Motin 2 months ago
Updated by Alexander Motin - Related to Bug #45622: Update oce(4) Emulex driver added
#3
Updated by Alexander Motin 2 months ago
- Status changed from Unscreened to Blocked
- Reason for Blocked set to Need additional information from Author
FreeNAS includes oce(4) driver for last 3 years. In FreeNAS 11.2 we updated it to the latest version from FreeNAS head (#45622), make sure you've tried it. If that is not enough, I am not sure what else we can do. Please tell more about the problem or direct it to upstream FreeBSD or the hardware vendor.
#4
Updated by Sajeev Ramasamy 2 months ago
Updated by Sajeev Ramasamy 
Alexander Motin wrote:
FreeNAS includes oce(4) driver for last 3 years. In FreeNAS 11.2 we updated it to the latest version from FreeNAS head (#45622), make sure you've tried it. If that is not enough, I am not sure what else we can do. Please tell more about the problem or direct it to upstream FreeBSD or the hardware vendor.
I got a Fatal trap 12 on boot when i added the nic, someone on the forum adviced me that the oce driver is missing and that's what's causing this error. I have attached a copy of the error.
#5
Updated by Alexander Motin 2 months ago
- Status changed from Blocked to Closed
- Reason for Closing set to Third Party to Resolve
- Reason for Blocked deleted (
Need additional information from Author)
This definitely does not tell that the driver is missing, it tells opposite, plus it tells that the driver identified the hardware enough to attach to it. Unfortunately something after that went wrong. Since we don't use/sell these NICs we can not even reproduce the issue, so I don't think we can help with this. You may try 11.3-nightly build to see whether it help (though I am skeptical about it). Then I'd recommend you to report it to FreeBSD upstream or the respective hardware vendor, and if there will be fixes, we'll happily integrate them.
#7
Updated by Sajeev Ramasamy 2 months ago
Alexander Motin wrote:
This definitely does not tell that the driver is missing, it tells opposite, plus it tells that the driver identified the hardware enough to attach to it. Unfortunately something after that went wrong. Since we don't use/sell these NICs we can not even reproduce the issue, so I don't think we can help with this. You may try 11.3-nightly build to see whether it help (though I am skeptical about it). Then I'd recommend you to report it to FreeBSD upstream or the respective hardware vendor, and if there will be fixes, we'll happily integrate them.
The driver in FreeNAS 11.1 U7 works fine, so i thought of copying it to 11.2, but i'm not able to find if_oce.ko in /boot/kernel nor /boot/modules. Can you tell me where it might be located? And if i do replace this working driver with the problematic one, do you think this option is feesable?
#8
Updated by Alexander Motin 2 months ago
The driver is statically linked into the kernel, so you can not replace it easily. In 11.2 the driver was updated, but I guess that is what caused the problem. The driver is developed and provided as-is by Emulex/Broadcom, so please bring their attention to the problem.
#9
Updated by Sajeev Ramasamy 2 months ago
Alexander Motin wrote:
The driver is statically linked into the kernel, so you can not replace it easily. In 11.2 the driver was updated, but I guess that is what caused the problem. The driver is developed and provided as-is by Emulex/Broadcom, so please bring their attention to the problem.
ok thanks