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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2) SRP is missing on
RHEL4 (</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51">http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51</A><FONT
color=blue><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">), which is a big
regression.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><BR>It was
removed on purpose since when running simple tests system is hanged due to the
spin-lock issue in kernel 2.6.9 (see discussion of Ishai and Doug about this).
We can put it back but I don’t see a point in putting something that easily
halts the machine or causing kernel oops. Ishai is working to debug it and
once it is solved we will put it back.<BR>What is your opinion on
this?<BR><BR><SPAN class=753481916-07052006><FONT color=#0000ff>[Scott
Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)] </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: navy"><SPAN class=753481916-07052006><FONT color=#0000ff>In OFED
1.0 rc2, SRP was working on RHEL4 2.6.9, at least on x86_64. All
other SRP implementations I know of work on RHEL4 2.6.9. I think OFED
SRP on RHEL4 2.6.9 is a must have.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: navy"><SPAN class=753481916-07052006><FONT color=#0000ff>SRP in
OFED consists of too many patches right now, we need to get the functionality
checked into SVN not just patched on top of SVN (see bug 62 that I just
filed, <A
href="http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62">http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62</A>).</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#0000ff>Scott</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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