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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">we are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">planning</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to replace a HighSpeed GSN (Gigabyte System Network) data interface with IB.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d like to t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">o use</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> verbs layer with the Access</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Layer on top.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Unfortunately Mellanox</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> our Hardware provide</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">r</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> does not supp</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ly</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> an Access layer with their IBGold 1.8 stack.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yes I know</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">openIB</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">currently</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">supports</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> only gen2 drivers with 2.6er kernels</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Unfortunately</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">all</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">our environment is still 2.4er kernels under RedHat EL</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Update 6</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Before my whole</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">development</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and target</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">environment is on 2.6er kernels I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> have to wait for another 2 month.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In order to speed up things for me as an developer I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d like to start with gen1 openIB drivers.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">soothing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> like rpm</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s or tgz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s I can use</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> which supplies wole IB stack for 2.4er kernels or an Acess layer extension for Mellanox IBGold stack.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d like to avoid to download via cvs,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">which</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m not familiar with yet.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thomas Bub</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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