Today I found this great article:
freebsdfoundation.org
I had not yet bothered about what this SR-IOV exactly is, I only had recognized: my mainboard can do it. So I had a closer look,
and found it interesting.
Then I noticed with a bit of surprise: my 2-dollar-on-ebay network card can also do it. So I decided to give it a try.
I switched in on in the BIOS. It didn't work.
I checked my custom kernel config. It was disabled. Okay, recompile the kernel. But it didn't work.
Then I figured: ups, the network card is actually seated in the PCH slot (which may not work). So I disassembled the machine (that is difficult: 21 disks, 11 fans in a 486-high-tower-case).
And, still, it didn't work.
Then I started searching online, and found the problem: FreeBSD cannot do it. Linux would.
Thats why I hate people like Facebook, Google, Supermarkets, the Foundation, and similar: they spill the web with (literally)
misleading advertisment stuff (that specifically doesn’t tell you what you need to know), give a damn about the people they influence, and don't care if things do (partially) NOT work.
A manpage in contrast would normally tell precisely what should work and also, what not.
| FreeBSD Foundation
SR-IOV is a First Class FreeBSD Feature SR-IOV is a First Class FreeBSD Feature A detailed walkthrough of how to setup hardware-driven virtualization using SR-IOV capable devices in FreeBSD. By Mark McBride One of my favorite hardware features is called Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization...
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I had not yet bothered about what this SR-IOV exactly is, I only had recognized: my mainboard can do it. So I had a closer look,
and found it interesting.
Then I noticed with a bit of surprise: my 2-dollar-on-ebay network card can also do it. So I decided to give it a try.
I switched in on in the BIOS. It didn't work.
I checked my custom kernel config. It was disabled. Okay, recompile the kernel. But it didn't work.
Then I figured: ups, the network card is actually seated in the PCH slot (which may not work). So I disassembled the machine (that is difficult: 21 disks, 11 fans in a 486-high-tower-case).
And, still, it didn't work.
Then I started searching online, and found the problem: FreeBSD cannot do it. Linux would.
Thats why I hate people like Facebook, Google, Supermarkets, the Foundation, and similar: they spill the web with (literally)
misleading advertisment stuff (that specifically doesn’t tell you what you need to know), give a damn about the people they influence, and don't care if things do (partially) NOT work.
A manpage in contrast would normally tell precisely what should work and also, what not.