[openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

Doug Ledford dledford at redhat.com
Wed Oct 18 06:10:58 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:29 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > >From our dicussion, it seems we should be able to just push the
> > > small number of missing bits into RHEL5 directly. That would be
> > > nicer of course.
> > 
> > It depends.  If there's lots of individual changes, it might be easier
> > to push the OFED 1.1 change.  But, that depends on when the final OFED
> > 1.1 comes out and how much it varies from the existing RPMs.
> 
> OFED is in deep freeze, so you can already look at it to estimate the amount of
> changes against 2.6.18.
> Could you look at the diff please so that I know whether it's worth it
> to invest in building the minimal patch set for pushing into RHEL5,
> or whether you'll push OFED 1.1 into RHEL kernel as is?

Yeah, I'll look over the diff today.

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