[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc2 is ready

[Doug Ledford]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 17:31 +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> 
> Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Not supporting ppc is a problem to a certain extent.  I can't speak for
> > SuSE, but at least for Red Hat, ppc is the default and over rides ppc64.
> > The ppc64 arch is less efficient than the ppc arch on ppc64 processors
> > except when large memory footprints are involved.  So, for things like
> > opensm, ibv_*, etc. the ppc arch should actually be preferred, and the
> > ppc64 arch libs should be present for those end user apps that need
> > large memory access.  That fact that dapl doesn't compile on ppc at all
> > is problematic as well.  In addition, what are you guys doing about the
> > lack of asm/atomic.h (breaking udapl compiles on ppc64 and ia64) going
> > forward?  I'd look in the packages and see for myself but the svn update
> > is taking forever due to those binary rpms packed into svn...ahh, it's
> > finally done....ok, still broken.
> > 
> 
> We don't have here any PPC machine for event for compilation checks :-(

Hmmm..probably should talk to Roland about getting sponsored as a Fedora
Extras developer, then you could kick off builds through the Fedora
build system, which allows you to compile on all the arches.

> > Without getting into an argument over the usage of that include, suffice
> > it to say that the include file is gone and builds fails on
> > fc6/rhel5beta.  Since the code really only uses low level intrinsics as
> > opposed to high level atomic ops, I made a ppc and ia64 intrinsics
> > header for linux and added it to the dapl package itself to work around
> > the issue.
> > 
> 
> Please work with James and Arlin to drive these changes to uDAPL.

Sure.

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