Mellanox PRM released!

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Great news! The Mellanox Adapter Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM) is now published on their website for everybody to download. This is the documentation that you need for driver development. Historically it has only been available under NDA.

This is a big deal for open source networking. The open PRM makes it possible for an independent developer to create a stand-alone driver for ConnectX-4 adapters. This one driver will work with 1G/10G/25G/40G/50G/100G cards in that product family.

The Snabb ConnectX-4 driver is under development: See #706 for status and branch mellanox for code.

Supporting independent open source developers is an excellent direction for the networking industry to move towards. Huge thanks are due to the end user customers who are taking the trouble to engage with their vendors and send this message, with special thanks to Normen Kowalewski at Deutsche Telekom!