Editing InfiniBand (section)

=== Software interfaces ===
Mellanox operating system support is available for [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[FreeBSD]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Mellanox OFED for FreeBSD|url=http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=193|publisher=Mellanox|access-date=19 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Mellanox Technologies |title=FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual, mlx5en |url=https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlx5en |website=FreeBSD Man Pages |publisher=FreeBSD |access-date=19 September 2018 |language=en |date=3 December 2015}}</ref> [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]], [[SUSE Linux Enterprise Server]] (SLES), [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]], [[HP-UX]], [[VMware ESX]],<ref>{{cite web|title=InfiniBand Cards - Overview|url= http://www.mellanox.com/page/infiniband_cards_overview|publisher= Mellanox|access-date= 30 July 2014}}</ref> and [[AIX]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Implementing InfiniBand on IBM System p (IBM Redbook SG24-7351-00)|url=http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247351.pdf}}</ref>

InfiniBand has no specific standard [[application programming interface]] (API). The standard only lists a set of verbs such as <code>ibv_open_device</code> or <code>ibv_post_send</code>, which are abstract representations of functions or methods that must exist. The syntax of these functions is left to the vendors. Sometimes for reference this is called the ''verbs'' API. The [[de facto standard]] software is developed by [[OpenFabrics Alliance]] and called the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED). It is released under two licenses [[GPL2]] or [[BSD license]] for Linux and FreeBSD, and as Mellanox OFED for Windows (product names: WinOF / WinOF-2; attributed as host controller driver for matching specific ConnectX 3 to 5 devices)<ref>[http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=32&menu_section=34 Mellanox OFED for Windows - WinOF / WinOF-2]</ref> under a choice of BSD license for Windows. 
It has been adopted by most of the InfiniBand vendors, for [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], and [[Microsoft Windows]]. [[IBM]] refers to a software library called <code>libibverbs</code>, for its [[AIX]] operating system, as well as "AIX InfiniBand verbs".<ref>{{Cite web |title= Verbs API |work= IBM AIX 7.1 documentation |url= https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.rdma/verbs_API.htm |date= 2020 |access-date= September 26, 2021 }}</ref>
The Linux kernel support was integrated in 2005 into the kernel version 2.6.11.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Verbs programming tutorial |date= March 11, 2014 |author= Dotan Barak |publisher= Mellanox |work= OpenSHEM, 2014 |url= https://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/openshmem2014/documents/presentations_and_tutorials/Tutorials/Verbs%20programming%20tutorial-final.pdf |access-date= September 26, 2021 }}</ref>