[openib-general] OpenIB SWG Face to Face 9/9 Meeting

[Roland Dreier]

    Hal> There needs to be a way to easily pull IB and add to kernel
    Hal> including building outside the kernel.

    Grant> Right now, "build outside the kernel" is irrelevant given
    Grant> dependencies on 2.6.8 kernels. Or do I have that wrong?

As Grant said, it's easy to pull and build as part of a kernel tree.
Not sure how important building outside of a kernel tree is, but it
shouldn't be too hard to do: the only issue is all the use of
CONFIG_INFINIBAND_blah in the Makefiles, and one could simply set
environment variables appropriately before building with "make -C
<kernel_path> M=`pwd`"  I haven't tried it yet but I'll give it a shot
and post a recipe if it works.  (By the way, separate object
directories with "O=xxx" work fine, and as part of my testing I
cross-compile 5 different archs out of one kernel tree)

 - Roland