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<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Michael,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Looking at the attached error file will show a big endian data displayed
in wrong little endian order.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
attached file mstflint2.patch fix this problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>The </FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>mstflint2.patch has to be used after mstflint.patch packed in the
OFED-1.1 openib.tgz.(user_patches...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
patch change only the displayed data and not the program's used internal
structures , as I found that data write is performed o.k.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> and I did not want to cause errors in the writing process
.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=594403115-19112006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Moshe</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Moshe Kazir
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 30, 2006 4:00 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Michael S.
Tsirkin'<BR><B>Cc:</B> openib-general@openib.org;
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> mstflint error on
ppc64<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>Hi
Michael,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>The output of
mstflint is changed on ppc64 as result of byte ordering
issues.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=399385213-30102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>If you take a HCA
that was burned using x86_64 or Mellanox manufacturing and perform
mstflint -d ... q on ppc64</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>you'll find that
the value of PSID VSD and Board Id was changed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=399385213-30102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>I tried to look at
the code to find the error,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=399385213-30102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>but then I saw
that vsd is defined twice in the code according to it's usage (char[205], or
unsigned int[52] )</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>Can you please
look and help ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=399385213-30102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=399385213-30102006>Best
regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=399385213-30102006>Moshe</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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