[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN at de.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2
> 
> > We stay with same build process but the backport patches give a solution
> > for such cases.
> > Michael Tsirkin can help you how we solved such problems with other
> > kernel code we needed.
> 
> I need to be more specific here: ibmebus requires two symbols in
> arch/ppc64/kernel/dma.c to be exported, which means one really needs
> to rebuild and install the patched kernel. As far as I understood
> from Michael, when we looked at ofed-1.1, that approach is not
> supported by ofed build process.

Yes, I don't have a solution for that on ppc.
For other modules we simply worked around the problem copying bits from newer
kernels but this might not work for you.

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