[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.2 Questions

[Tziporet Koren]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Tziporet,
>>
>> I'm in the process of adding the Chelsio T3 drivers to the OFED
>> repository and I have a question:
>>
>> The HowTo kernel section you posted on the wiki sez to add the new files
>> to the repos directly via a git commit, but create patches for
>> modifications to existing files and put the patches in the
>> kernel_patches/fixes directory.  However, I don't see patches in that
>> directory to modify the core Makefile/Kconfig for SDP or other new
>> modules added for ofed.  So should I just modify infiniband/Makefile and
>> Kconfig via the git commit that adds the new Chelsio files, or create a
>> patch file and put it in kernel_patches/fixes?
>>     
>
> Yes you can modify the Makefile/Kconfig directly.
> Reason being, its always trivial to resolve conflicts there
> when merging from upstream.
>  
>   
After you check its working if you changed the general Makfiles/Kconfig 
please send the patches to Vlad.
>> Also, are there machines available with the various ofed supported
>> distros installed that I can do compile testing for the Chelsio user
>> lib?
>>
>>     
You can compile on the OFA server - but this has only Ubuntu OS.
For testing in other OSes  you should setup systems in your company.

Tziporet