[ewg] OFED-3.5

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Hi,
OFED-3.5 daily builds are available under http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-daily/
Currently, only 3.5-rcX kernel is supported. Working on RHEL6.3 support. I'll update in a day or two.


Git trees:
Linux:
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URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5

- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5-rc3 tag. Used to shorten git clone time.
   Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.

compat:
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URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed

- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.

compat-rdma:
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URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master

Note: Branch "ofed_3_2" was created for OFED-3.2 support.

Anything that is not general kernel compatibility but instead specific to OFED goes into compat-rdma.git.
After you've cloned all three trees, linux-next.git, compat.git and compat-rdma.git you need to change into the
compat-rdma directory and tell compat-rdma where you linux-next and
compat.git trees are. You do this with environment variables GIT_TREE and
GIT_COMPAT_TREE.

export GIT_TREE=/home/user/linux-next/
export GIT_COMPAT_TREE=/home/user/compat

./scripts/admin_rdma.sh - create OFED kernel tree under compat-rdma.

Compilation procedure (same as before):
# configure <params>
# make
# make install


Regards,
Vladimir