[openfabrics-ewg] [PATCH] ehca backport openib_dma_addr_t_ofed_1.1_to_2_6_9.patch

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN at de.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehca backport openib_dma_addr_t_ofed_1.1_to_2_6_9.patch
> 
> Michael,
> > Let's see the patches, then we can decide.
> This patch depends on ibmebus, which has a strong code dependency on
> arch/ppc64/irq.c as two symbols need to be exported from there:
>     virt_irq_create_mapping() and __irq_offset_value
> This requires a kernel rebuild. Thus, there is no backport of ehca
> for 2.6.9_U4 and ofed-1.1. For any version that follows 2.6.9_U4
> we will do if it resolves this issue.
> 
> Regarding 2.6.17: No backport patch of ehca is required. I did build
> and test it on 2.6.17 with ipoib and user space successfully. Please
> include 2.6.17 for ehca in the build_env.sh script for RC6.
> 
> Thanks!
> Nam Nguyen
> 

Will do.

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