[ofa-general] Fedora 10 OFED support plans

[Jeremy Enos]

Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 23:00, Jeremy Enos wrote:
>   
>>  Fails w/ ofa_kernel like the others have... I didn't test excluding this rpm with FC11, but the others also fail elsewhere w/ this rpm excluded- so I'm guessing FC11 would as well.  I included the output (and last 50 lines of log) in case you can glean something useful from it.  Thank you-
>>  
>>      Jeremy
>>  
>>  Build ofa_kernel RPM
>>  Running rpmbuild --rebuild  --define '_topdir /var/tmp/OFED_topdir' --define 'configure_options   --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-cxgb3-mod --with-nes-mod --with-qib-mod --with-ipoib-mod --with-sdp-mod --with-rds-mod --with-qlgc_vnic-mod --with-iser-mod --with-nfsrdma-mod' --define 'build_kernel_ib 1' --define 'build_kernel_ib_devel 1' --define 'KVERSION 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64' --define 'K_SRC /lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/build' --define 'network_dir /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts' --define '_prefix /usr' --define '__arch_install_post %{nil}' /home-ib/ac/jenos/ofed/OFED-1.5-beta1/SRPMS/ofa_kernel-1.5-ofed1.5.beta1.src.rpm
>>  Failed to build ofa_kernel RPM 
>>  See /tmp/OFED.1584.logs/ofa_kernel.rpmbuild.log 
>>  [root at ac32 OFED-1.5-beta1]# tail -50 /tmp/OFED.1584.logs/ofa_kernel.rpmbuild.log 
>>                  mkdir -p /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILDROOT/ofa_kernel-1.5-ofed1.5.beta1.x86_64//lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/updates/kernel/net/rds; \
>>                  mv /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/extra/net/rds/rds*.ko /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILDROOT/ofa_kernel-1.5-ofed1.5.beta1.x86_64//lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/updates/kernel/net/rds/ ; \
>>          elif [ -d /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/extra ]; then \
>>                  mkdir -p /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILDROOT/ofa_kernel-1.5-ofed1.5.beta1.x86_64//lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/updates/kernel/net/rds; \
>>                  mv /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/extra/rds*.ko /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILDROOT/ofa_kernel-1.5-ofed1.5.beta1.x86_64//lib/modules/2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64/updates/kernel/net/rds/ ; \
>>          fi;
>>     
>
> I notice that you have a 2.6.30-based kernel.  The FC11 that we have here is 2.6.29-based:
>       2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
>
> Has there been some change in FC11 that we are not aware of?
> (the release notes for FC11 also state that it is 2.6.29-based).
>
>   
Yep... your FC11 is not up to date.  An up to date FC11 runs kernel 
2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64.  (This is critical given recent kernel exploit 
vulnerabilities)
thx-

    Jeremy
> That said, I notice that there is a bug in rds on our Fedora Core11 (2.6.29-based).
> Andy, you need to put rds_to_2_6_28.patch into a 2.6.29 kernel_patches/backports directory.
> There isn't one yet.
>
> I can do this for you, but I suggest a rename to rds_to_2_6_29.patch for the file (in this directory
> only).
> Summary:  I will create kernel_patches/backport/2.6.29 directory, and put rds_to_2_6_29.patch inside.
>           rds_to_2_6_29.patch is identical to rds_to_2_6_28.patch
>           NOTE: as of now, there is no need for a separate 2.6.29_FC11 backports directory.  If the need
>                 arises, we will create it.
>  
> If you ACK, I will take care of it.
>
> -Jack
>
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