[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN at de.ibm.com>:
Subject: Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2

Hi Michael!
> > I need to be more specific here: ibmebus requires two symbols in
> > arch/ppc64/kernel/dma.c to be exported, which means one really needs
> > to rebuild and install the patched kernel. As far as I understood
> > from Michael, when we looked at ofed-1.1, that approach is not
> > supported by ofed build process.
> Yes, I don't have a solution for that on ppc.
> For other modules we simply worked around the problem copying bits from newer
> kernels but this might not work for you.

> No. It can not, because two symbols need to be exported from
> rhel4.5/sles9sp3 kernel.
> I'm looking for a solution for users/customers that are willing to use
> ofed-1.2 plus ehca on rhel4.5/sles9sp3 and to patch their kernel themselves. Can we
> include those backport patches in ofed-1.2 under a dir contrib as we have
> on svn? That dir can be placed in kernel_addons or the like.
> I can then provide a howto for ehca in such one cases.
> Thanks
> Nam

This is possible. Please put these under your ~/public_html on OFA server
for now, we'll find some place to put it when ofed 1.2 feature freeze
kicks in and Vlad starts working on packaging.

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