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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/24/2013 03:43 PM, Narayan Desai
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<div dir="ltr">I don't have a problem with the packages I have in
my ppa being coped to the ofa-ofed one. What is the long term
plan for maintenance of these?</div>
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I think having a Launchpad project and team/ppa for OFED is good for
two use cases. 1, for developers to check out the latest code and
who can't wait for it to be available in debian/unstable or
ubuntu/universe, and 2, for people who want to check out the latest
code on a specific version of Ubuntu, such as the current LTS 12.04.
Given the differences in release cadences, I think these two use
cases will remain true until all software projects from various
companies have the same release cadence. This is a community project
and should be maintained by the community developers/users. It's set
up so people can report issues or requests via Launchpad and all
what comes out of it will be easily (relatively) known to the
community by going to a central LP project rather than digging into
mailing list archive/mailing someone who you think might
know/googling. I myself do not have a long term plan for
maintenance, but it's been on my todo list to help with packaging in
my spare time. I am putting my Ubuntu community hat on, not the
Canonical hat.
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<div style="">My big question is whether i keep my archive
active or not; </div>
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If we start pushing packages to this LP team ppa, advertising it and
directing people to use the packages in the PPA, if I were you, I
would push the packages here so that I get more testing on those
packages. <br>
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<div style="">I think that really depends on what the canonical
plans are for ofed. I'm not sure if you guys will want
everything, or will be keeping up to date aggressively or not.</div>
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Canonical is the commercial entity behind Ubuntu, it needs
commercial incentives to back up the engineering resources it
requires to support official support for OFED, and we haven't seen
enough to break the threshold. <br>
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<div style="">Also, since mellanox is starting to release bits
for ubuntu, how will those fit in?</div>
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I don't know the details. I'd assume that particular version of
packages are tested against Mellanox cards on particular Ubuntu
releases. This provides the assurance to the Mellanox customers. I
think they could use this Launchpad platform to get more testing
feedback before the release. Just my 2 cents.<br>
<br>
Samantha<br>
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<div style="">thanks.</div>
<div style=""> -nld</div>
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Samantha Jian-Pielak <span
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<div>Hi, this is my response before I subscribed to the
mailing list..<br>
<br>
Narayan, it would be great if you can copy over those
packages you have to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eofa-ofed"
target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ofa-ofed</a>,
any concerns?<br>
<br>
Samantha<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
OFED has been tested against RPM-based distributions
only. In the recent OFED developer workshop, there was a
discussion about supporting Debian-based distro. So the
answer to your question 'is OFED 3.5.1 compatible with
Ubuntu' is there is no testing done with Ubuntu.
Currently the OFED support on Ubuntu is the same as what
have been pushed upstream (Debian). I put together a
list of packages in OFED 3.5 and compared the version of
those found in 4 Ubuntu releases, from 11.10 to 13.04.
It can be downloaded here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OFED" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OFED</a><br>
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As you pointed out the infiniband PPA from Roland
Dreier, Narayan Desai from Argnonne National Lab also
packaged some for Ubuntu. After my presentation at the
OFED developer workshop last month, I created a
launchpad project and team with the goal to be the place
for people to share the packages with the Ubuntu
community <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eofa-ofed"
target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ofa-ofed</a>.
The idea is it would be great if all packages in the
OFED are available in the Debian universe repo, but if
it takes too long to get in Debian, here is the place to
get it. If any (packaging) issues are found, the burden
of fixing can be shared with the community. I have
started working with Prof. DK Panda from Ohio State U.
and Intel PSM team. As a Ubuntu community member, I am
interested in helping/facilitating the support of those
packages for Ubuntu. If you are looking for the blessing
on OFED and Ubuntu, IMHO it should come from the OFED
EWG. <br>
<br>
Samantha<br>
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On 05/24/2013 11:22 AM, Narayan Desai wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've built an ubuntu PPA of a bunch
of the system management-related packages from
OFED 3.5. It is currently only for 12.04, but i
can build for newer distributions if it would be
useful.
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<div>The ppa is here:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://launchpad.net/%7Enarayan-desai/+archive/infiniband"
target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~narayan-desai/+archive/infiniband</a><br>
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<div>Comments, questions, etc, are welcome.</div>
<div> -nld</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 24, 2013 at
9:39 AM, Rupert Dance <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ubuntu has been
working with the OFA Interoperability WG
and our collaboration has led to RDMA
support within their distribution. To my
knowledge they have the equivalent of
OFED 1.4.1 support right now. OFED 3.5.1
is rpm based and so does not support the
Debian package system used by Ubuntu.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have ”cc” my main
contact from Ubuntu who may be able to
provide more details and the current
status.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rupert</p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrei
Mikhailovsky<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 24, 2013
10:20 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Users] Centos
6.4 support</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
will give it a go now and come
back.<br>
<br>
P.S. I am an unfortunate owner
of HP blade switch with QLogic
mezzanine cards which are so
crappy, it's unreal!<br>
<br>
I've tried to get them working
so many different ways on many
linux distros and it seems that
they only work on CentOS/RHEL.
That's is why I have to stick
with CentOS for the time being
as I am an Ubuntu guy.<br>
<br>
I've just tried Ubuntu 12.04,
12.10 and 13.04 with infiniband
PPA from Roland Dreier and I
just can't get this card to
work. I've got Mellanox cards
working perfectly well with the
same set of tools. Perhaps it's
another post which I will make
shortly.<br>
<br>
By the way, is OFED 3.5.1
compatible with Ubuntu? If so,
what version has it been tested
with?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Andrei</span></p>
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<b>Sent: </b>Friday, 24 May,
2013 3:00:47 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Users]
Centos 6.4 support<br>
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On Friday 24 May 2013 07:42:49
Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:<br>
> I posted about this a
month or two ago, I had to
downgrade kernel &<br>
>
kernel-devel-2.6.32.279.22.1
to get it to compile, didn't
have time to<br>
> look at patching, still
don't :( .<br>
<br>
You are aware that that kernel
has a trivial local root hole,
right?<br>
<br>
CentOS-6.4 has a quite recent
integrated ib-stack so most
people won't have to <br>
install OFED though...<br>
<br>
/Peter<br>
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> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at
7:37 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrei@arhont.com" target="_blank">andrei@arhont.com</a>>
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wrote:<br>
> > Hello guys,<br>
> > <br>
> > I've recently
upgraded several of my servers
from CentOS 6.3 to 6.4 and<br>
> > tried to install
OFED 3.5. There were issues
with compiling compat-rdma<br>
> > package. I was
wondering if there are any
patches or release candidates<br>
> > which work with
CentOS 6.4? Can't seems to
find much info on the net<br>
> > regarding it.<br>
> > <br>
> > Many thanks<br>
> > <br>
> > Andrei<br>
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