[openfabrics-ewg] [PATCH] ehca backport linux_ibmebus_to_2_6_9.patch

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN at de.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehca backport linux_ibmebus_to_2_6_9.patch
> 
> > This won't work for OFED - it is built out-of-kernel,
> > we do not apply patches to kernel tree.
> It appears I've to build ibmebus as a kernel module like ib_core.
> That means for older kernels I need to tell build.sh/install.sh
> about this prerequisite.

What we did with other such cases was, link the functionality
directly into the module that uses it, by patching the Makefile.
Will this work for you?

> > You need to add any functionality you are missing in kernel into
> > your module proper.
> And also other layers like ipoib, mad etc that use dma mapping,
> which needs to be 64-bit on ppc64. See also
> openib_dma_addr_t_ofed_1.1_to_2_6_9.patch.

We are discussing this in other thread, right?

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