Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
([Linux Networking] 5 Hours Ago
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NBL is a new Ethernet networking driver destined to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel for supporting Nebula Matrix NICs.
Nebula Matrix is a Chinese company developing smart NICs and data processing units (DPUs) for the data center. Beginning with Linux 7.4 their NBL driver should be upstream for supporting their m18110-NIC/m18000-NIC (marketed as SNIC s1000) is a series data center products.
The Nebula Matrix SmartNIC S1000 series is a Chinese domestic 100GE network adapter design for cloud computing, HPC, and related fields with up to 2x100G interfaces per card. The S1000 series uses a PCIe Gen4 x16 interface and all the typical functionality one would expect from a high-end 100G network adapter. Nebula Matrix makes both Windows and Linux drivers for the hardware while now there will be mainline kernel support to enjoy a better out-of-the-box experience and for when carrying out kernel upgrades.
More details on the S1000 series via [1]Nebula-Matrix.com .
Nebula Matrix developed this driver themselves and went through the upstreaming process to get it into the Linux kernel. The initial driver is [2]merged to net-next as of this past week and thus expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window.
[1] https://www.nebula-matrix.com/snic_s1000_en
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=c440250e9ca895b4b47f6e9eac93b1bb1b2f96d6
Nebula Matrix is a Chinese company developing smart NICs and data processing units (DPUs) for the data center. Beginning with Linux 7.4 their NBL driver should be upstream for supporting their m18110-NIC/m18000-NIC (marketed as SNIC s1000) is a series data center products.
The Nebula Matrix SmartNIC S1000 series is a Chinese domestic 100GE network adapter design for cloud computing, HPC, and related fields with up to 2x100G interfaces per card. The S1000 series uses a PCIe Gen4 x16 interface and all the typical functionality one would expect from a high-end 100G network adapter. Nebula Matrix makes both Windows and Linux drivers for the hardware while now there will be mainline kernel support to enjoy a better out-of-the-box experience and for when carrying out kernel upgrades.
More details on the S1000 series via [1]Nebula-Matrix.com .
Nebula Matrix developed this driver themselves and went through the upstreaming process to get it into the Linux kernel. The initial driver is [2]merged to net-next as of this past week and thus expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window.
[1] https://www.nebula-matrix.com/snic_s1000_en
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=c440250e9ca895b4b47f6e9eac93b1bb1b2f96d6