[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Build failures on current 1.4.1 dailies

[Or Gerlitz]

Gennadiy Nerubayev wrote:
> Well, I need a recent-ish vanilla kernel due to some performance 
> advantages over stock redhat in some usage scenarios. OFED goes on top 
> of that because of the ease of installation and use.I know I can 
> install and use some of the userspace ofed stuff (opensm, utils, 
> management, libs, etc) along with the in-kernel infinband stack on 
> 2.6.29.1, but even that does not include the whole picture compared to 
> full ofed. Simple stuff still needs to be added for it to be 
> functional, such as 90-ib.rules which is part of the ofa_kernel rpm 
> package; but I digress.
You mentioned redhat, so you could use the IB stack provided by the 
distro and just replace the kernel. This IB stack has all the components 
you have mentioned.

> Also, this may sound dumb, but where do I get the support for SDP with 
> in-kernel stack? I can build the libsdp stuff in ofed, but the actual 
> module appears to be ofa_kernel only?
sdp was never submitted upstream... do you use it?

Or.