[ewg] OFED-3.5

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

On 07/10/2012 06:32 PM, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi,
The following build includes IB core and mlx4_ib backports:

http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-daily/OFED-3.5-20120712-1514.tgz

- Partially tested on RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.3.

Regards,
Vladimir

>
> Git trees:
> Linux:
> ------
> 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:
> -------
> 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:
> ------------
> 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