[ewg] Failure to build OFED 4.8 on RHEL 7.2 with native kernel

Amrani, Ram Ram.Amrani at cavium.com
Sun Nov 27 06:41:48 PST 2016


Hi All,
I have downloaded the latest OFED build OFED-4.8-20161120-0830 and tried to install it on RHEL 7.2, with native kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.
I was expecting it to build well since the readme states under section "1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems":
  o   Linux Operating Systems:
        - RedHat EL7.2          3.10.0-327.el7
        - SLES12                3.12.28-4
        - SLES12.1              3.12.49-11.1
        - kernel.org            4.8    *

The build failed on 'qib', and when I disabled all vendors it still failed but this time on iser.

The iSER failure:
    /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-4.8/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.h:51:23: fatal error: scsi/iser.h: No such file or directory
    #include <scsi/iser.h>
This hints that a kernel version higher than 4.4  is required because that specific file was first introduced in kernel 4.5.

(the qib failure was similar - implicit declaration for a function introduced in a newer kernel).

Perhaps there's a step I've missed in the installation?
Is this combination supposed to work? Has anyone tried it?

Thanks,
Ram







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