[ewg] Re: Build problem with RHEL-4.5 and OFED-1.2

Stefan Roscher ossrosch at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 14 06:31:26 PDT 2007


He Doug,

are there any news for this problem? Is it a problem of the OFED-build or a
problem with redhat?
Should I open a bugzilla to track this?

Regards Stefan
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:57, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:05, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:24 +0200, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> > > Hi Doug,
> > > 
> > > I installed RHEL-4.5 on one of our ppc64 systems and recognized that asm-ppc
> > > directory is missing in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-55.EL/include. 
> > > Normally I don't need this directory, but ibmebus.h includes
> > > asm-ppc64/of_device.h. And there asm-ppc64/of_device.h includes 
> > > asm-ppc/of_device.h. Because this file is missing I can not build 
> > > ehca and ofed stack with ofed-1.2 daily build from today.
> > > 
> > > Did I make something wrong during installation?
> > > 
> > > Regards Stefan Roscher
> > 
> > I'll look into it, but in the meantime, install the kernel src.rpm, go
> > into /usr/src/redhat/SPEC and run rpmbuild --bp kernel-2.6.spec and it
> > should create a complete source tree
> > in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18 that you can then get the asm-ppc
> > directory contents out of.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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> >               http://people.redhat.com/dledford
> > 
> > Infiniband specific RPMs available at
> >               http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband
> > 
> To create the backportpatches for rhel4.5 I did it like you say, but the
> buildscripts of ofed dont uses the kernelsources in
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD. OFED-1.2 use the source link within
> /lib/modules/kernel-x.x.x and this points into /usr/src/kernel this
> kernelsources were created during installation of rhel-4.5. In this kernel
> source the directory include/asm-ppc is missing.
> This is the reason why I found this problem not during creation of the
> backport patches.
> 
> regards stefan
> 
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