[openib-general] vendor_id, vendor_part_id, hw_ver

[Kevin Reilly]

Mike,
   Ideally your right the ULP shouldn't care what HCA it's running on.
There are some practical reasons why an ULP might
want to know the vendor and part number it was using like for debug or
taking advantage a perform nuance of a particular
HCA.

Kevin J. Reilly
STSM, HPC Architecture
-Federation/HPS  Chief Engineer
-HPC interconnect architect
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At 02:00 PM 7/8/2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
          Kevin> Is openIB going to do anything to enumerate the
          Kevin> vendor_id,vendor_part_id and hw_ver in a common header
          Kevin> fille or is it the responsiblity of ULP running ontop of
          Kevin> the lib to understand these values?

      I don't have anything planned to enumerate those values.  I would
      guess that only a very few ULPs should even look at them.

Why would this ever have to be examined by a ULP?  This seems like a
low-level driver issue.  Given the verbs semantics abstract the hardware,
aside from the HCA-specific driver, the rest of the stack should be unaware
of any thing below.

Mike