[openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5

[Betsy Zeller]

Here's some initial test results from QLogic on installing RC5.

1) The tarball contains a broken symbolic link, but things seemed to
work with this removed.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 1078 101    39 May 25 14:27 OFED-1.0-rc5
-> /mswg2/work/vlad/IBGD/Prod/OFED-1.0-rc5

2) Installation failed on SUSE 9.3:

This attempt failed due to the RPM dependency on sysfsutils. This
package is called udev on SUSE 9.3. In all likelihood the proper
dependency would be on libsysfs.so. 

Here is the error from SUSE 9.3:

Checking dependencies. Please wait ...

ERROR: sysfsutils 64-bit version is required to build libibverbs package
ERROR: The sysfsutils package is required to build libibverbs_devel RPM

3) RHEL 4 SP 3:

This attempt failed due to an unspecified dependency on tcl-devel. Once
tcl-devel was installed, it built successfully.


4) SLES 10
We tried this on Beta 8 (will also try on SLES10 RC1), and the attempt
failed due to a patch failure. The log is attached.

5) Fedora Core 3:

This attempt failed due to an unspecified dependency on tcl-devel. Once
tcl-devel was installed, it built successfully.

6) Fedora Core 4:
Like RHEL4 and FC3, except that the machine tested already had
tcl-devel installed.

7) After installation and reboot, the systems were configured with
less than unsatisfactory IP addresses for the IB ports.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib* assigned addresses by
incrementing the first octet of the eth0 address. This took the
interface out of the 192.168.*.* protected range. I installed
the RPMs manually, using rpm -ivh RPMS/*, so this was not done
by the OFED installer, but rather a script in one of the RPMs.

This problem really needs to be fixed before we ship 1.0.

Once the IP addresses were fixed, IPoIB and SDP worked just as
expected.

-- 
Betsy Zeller
Director of Software Engineering
QLogic Corporation
System Interconnect Group
(formerly PathScale, Inc)
2071 Stierlin Court, Suite 200
Mountain View, CA, 94043
1-650-934-8088
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