[ofa-general] OFED-1.4: ofa-kernel modules do not compile on 2.6.26 under Debian Lenny

[Or Gerlitz]

Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote:
> Or Gerlitz schrieb:

>>> Hello Ofa-List!  Compiling the ofa-kernel modules from OFED-1.4 on
>>> Debian Lenny Kernel 2.6.26 (on amd64) gives me the following trace:

>> Second, what makes you want to replace the IB stack that comes with
>> Debian and not update the distro?

> I never said nothing about replacing. But before I can bring in some improvement 
> to the Debian IB stack firstly I like to have a running IB Stack on Debian at all.

Hi,

The Linux kernel Infiniband maintainer Roland Dreier made the following comment
@ http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2008-July/052824.html

> I use Debian for pretty much all my development.  However I haven't
> tried to use OFED -- rather, I have just gotten all the support that I
> use into the main Debian archive.  I'm not sure how much is in Etch but
> Lenny should be pretty good: there are libibverbs, librdmacm, libmthca,
> libmlx4, libcxgb3, and libipathverbs packages in the main archive, along
> with Open MPI 1.2.6 built with IB support.  And the 2.6.25 kernel in the
> archive should have all the kernel drivers you need.

So IB comes with Debian out of the box, and if its broken, please
report it and I'm sure Roland will act to fix things.

> There are several parts of the OFED (for instance opensm and other user
> space tools) that are not avaible in debian, yet. The idea is to bring a more 
> consistent Infiniband support to Debian. But this is not my project, so I do 
> not like to discuss over the head of
> someone other. Here the wishlist entry for OFED Debian support issued by Guy Coates.
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/b42e830ce29c641a

The OFED packages by no means provide "more consistent Infiniband support to Debian". If some packages are missing, I would recommend to act and add them in the native Debian forms  as Roland suggested in his postings over the other thread and not to go and "port ofed to debian" - its useless and end-in-mind will get you nothing. 

If you need help with the management libraries (libibmad, libibumad, opensm, diags) push info Debian, there are people on this list who might be able to help you with that.

Or.