[ewg] OFED1.4.1 SLES11 backport builds with sles11 rc4 kernel

[Jeff Becker]

Hi Alex

Alexander Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:25:37 -0800
> Jeff Becker <Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>   
>> I had trouble building with-ehca-mod because include/asm-powerpc is no
>> longer there in 2.6.27 and later: e.g., for 
>> drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c:
>>
>> In file included from
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.h:51,
>>                  from
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_classes.h:64,
>>                  from
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c:49:
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_tools.h:62:26:
>> error: asm/abs_addr.h: No such file or directory
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_tools.h:63:25:
>> error: asm/ibmebus.h: No such file or directory
>> /home/becker/OFED_NFS_RDMA/sles11rc4-build/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_tools.h:66:24:
>> error: asm/hvcall.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> Any advice? Thanks.
>>
>> -jeff
>>     
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The asm directory is now located in arch/powerpc/include. I have been testing
> the daily builds of OFED 1.4.1 against a 2.6.27 vanilla kernel on powerpc (the
> ehca driver only works on powerpc platforms). That worked fine so far. Can you
> please send me the package you try to build on SLES11 so that I can recreate
> this here?
>
> Anyway, thanks for looking into the SLES11 backports, I will be happy to test
> them with ehca when they are integrated into the daily builds.
>
>   

Works for me. Thanks.

-jeff

> Regards,
> Alex
>