[openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 17 08:09:58 PDT 2006
Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 15:35 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 22:14 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > > > Sorry. RHEL5 Beta1 has been out for a while, but OFED 1.1 still isn't
> > > > > done yet. Obviously, I wasn't able to get something in RHEL5 that
> > > > > didn't even exist prior to freeze.
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible to include patches backporting fixes in infiniband kernel
> > > > components from 2.6.18/OFED 1.1 to modules that already ship with RHEL5?
> > >
> > > Maybe. It would depend on the patch. Of course, keep in mind that
> > > RHEL5 Beta1 *has* a 2.6.18 kernel.
> >
> > I looked here
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1/server/source/
> > and it seems to be 2.6.17 based.
> > Is something wrong?
>
> Yeah, this is the rolling updates thing I was telling you about. The
> Beta1 kernel was 2.6.17+several git repos and patches. We've since
> updated to 2.6.18, but that was released as an update to the Beta1 isos
> and trees via RHN. So, I don't think you'll see the kernel unless you
> either 1) use up2date to refresh the beta system
Will that get me the sources too?
> or 2) download later
> iso images and look at the kernel present. The current kernel version
> is 2.6.18-1.2717.el5.
So, I'd like to help, but how can one get the updated kernel source?
Are the iso's with updated sources available somewhere?
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MST
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