[openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 17 22:50:10 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 06:01 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > Far easier would be to go the other way around,
> > > run on x86_64 and build for i386, in which case gcc supports that out of
> > > the box.
> > 
> > All that's left is to convince Lenovo there's a market for x86_64
> > thinkpads.
> 
> I would place that behind convincing them not to ship exploding
> batteries (thankfully, they actually saw the light on that after some
> spectacular examples of why they should).

Sigh. BTW, the utility they supplied to check the battery didn't run under wine,
had to open the case, copy the S/N to their web page manually.

And I wandered - what does the utility do on windows? Heats the thing
up and tests whether it explodes?

-- 
MST




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