[openib-general] [PATCH] Allow setting of NodeDescription

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Thu Sep 15 11:27:41 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 12:00, Roland Dreier wrote:
> But I don't see any way to handle the situation arising when booting
> over IB, where a system needs the SM to bring its port to active
> before it can boot, but where the system doesn't know its host name
> until after it boots.

This is somewhat cumbersome but clearly the host name is known and could
be burnt nonvolatilely into the SMA.

-- Hal




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