[openib-general] Compilation issues on rhel4 u3 ppc64 sysfs.o

[Paul]

Scott,
   Thanks for the confirmation and the quick reply. Any ideas as to what
might be causing the error in question ?

Regards.

On 5/23/06, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>  OFED 1.0 rc4 does compile and run on RHEL4 U3 ppc64.
>
> Scott Weitzenkamp
> SQA and Release Manager
> Server Virtualization Business Unit
> Cisco Systems
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:
> openib-general-bounces at openib.org] *On Behalf Of *Paul Lundin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:34 PM
> *To:* openib-general at openib.org
> *Subject:* [openib-general] Compilation issues on rhel4 u3 ppc64 sysfs.o
>
> Hi All,
>      I just started working with openIB in the past week. I am having an
> issue getting the kernel modules to compile with the stock rhel4 u3 kernel.
> I have applied the patches found at
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport/2.6.9_U3/ and followed the
> instructions from https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Installation+Cheat+Sheet
> but I have been getting the following error:
>
> LD /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/built-in.o
> LD /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/built-in.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9- 34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/index.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.o
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9- 34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c: In
> function `ib_cm_cleanup':
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c:3367:
> warning: implicit declaration of function `idr_destroy'
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9- 34.EL-ppc64
> /drivers/infiniband/core/packer.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64
> /drivers/infiniband/core/ud_header.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.o
> CC [M] /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9- 34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.o
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c:693:
> error: unknown field `uevent' specified in initializer
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c:693:
> warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> make[2]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.o]
> Error 1
> make[1]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband/core]
> Error 2
> make: *** [_module_/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9- 34.EL-ppc64/drivers/infiniband]
> Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-ppc64'
>
> Any help would be appreciated. As noted this is on a ppc64 machine. The
> rhel4 u3 install does *NOT* configure openIB by default like it does on
> intel architectures. I was wondering if openIB has been tested at all on
> ppc64 and if this was even possible at this point.
>
> Regards.
> Paul
>
>
>
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