• Bug#1109977: linux: Please enable CONFIG_INFINIBAND_BNXT_RE

    From Michael Hierweck@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 27 14:50:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.kernel

    Source: linux
    Severity: wishlist

    Dear Maintainers,

    Would it be possible to enable CONFIG_INFINIBAND_BNXT_RE?

    This would build the bnxt_re kernel module that is required to use RoCE
    (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) with modern Broadcom ethernet controllers.

    Thanks in advance,

    Michael

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 12.11
    APT prefers stable-updates
    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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