[openib-general] Problem Building OpenIB on 2.6.12 kernel

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Tue Sep 20 21:15:00 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:33, Don.Dhondt at Bull.com wrote:
> 
>     Don> Our kernel is 2.6.12 and we try to build the GEN2 drivers.
>     Don> The gen2 "linux-kernel" trunk was downloaded
>     Don> yesterday... don't remember the number.
> 
>       Roland> You may run into other problems, because now that 2.6.13 is
> out, the
>       Roland> OpenIB subversion tree will support 2.6.13 instead of 2.6.12.
> 
> It is not very practical to try to use OpenIB on a continually moving
> kernel.
> That is probably why we see so many backport patches for various kernels.
> I don't suppose you know of any existing backport patches to 2.6.12.

I believe Mellanox has a backport to 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 which should be
close to what you need (in
https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport/).

-- Hal




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