[openib-general] OpenIB Linux and Solaris

[Nitin Hande]

Paul

Solaris has its own stack implementation of the IB components.  We do 
run  some basic interoperability test's on various components (I can confirm
about IPoIB) between solaris and OpenIB stack.

Thanks
Nitin

Paul Baxter wrote:

> Can anybody comment on recent experience regarding inter-operability 
> of OpenIB/Linux on Intel 64 bit  x86 and Sparx/Solaris using the Sun 
> stack?
>
> Ideally inter-operability would start at IPoIB and the SM but perhaps 
> extend to inter-operable SDP?
>
> Has anyone tried porting some userspace low-level OpenIB verbs comms 
> (UC, RDMA write specifically). I am not experienced enough to 
> understand if there are any gotchas with unimplemented features in 
> either the Solaris or OpenIB implementations. I've not had much luck 
> investigating the equivalent of userspace verbs support for Solaris.
>
> I notice that some of the commercial stacks offer cross platform 
> support and say 'OpenIB support, Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS 
> X'. I suspect this might be subtle wording as I don't think OpenIB is 
> ported toSolaris, ULP support is using some Solaris 10 drivers instead?
>
> Advice/ URL pointers appreciated (Google wasn't my friend!)
>
> Paul Baxter
>
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