[openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
> 
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 15:35 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 22:14 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > > > Sorry.  RHEL5 Beta1 has been out for a while, but OFED 1.1 still isn't
> > > > > done yet.  Obviously, I wasn't able to get something in RHEL5 that
> > > > > didn't even exist prior to freeze.
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be possible to include patches backporting fixes in infiniband kernel
> > > > components from 2.6.18/OFED 1.1 to modules that already ship with RHEL5?
> > > 
> > > Maybe.  It would depend on the patch.  Of course, keep in mind that
> > > RHEL5 Beta1 *has* a 2.6.18 kernel.
> > 
> > I looked here
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1/server/source/
> > and it seems to be 2.6.17 based.
> > Is something wrong?
> 
> Yeah, this is the rolling updates thing I was telling you about.  The
> Beta1 kernel was 2.6.17+several git repos and patches.  We've since
> updated to 2.6.18, but that was released as an update to the Beta1 isos
> and trees via RHN.  So, I don't think you'll see the kernel unless you
> either 1) use up2date to refresh the beta system

Will that get me the sources too?

> or 2) download later
> iso images and look at the kernel present.  The current kernel version
> is 2.6.18-1.2717.el5.

So, I'd like to help, but how can one get the updated kernel source?
Are the iso's with updated sources available somewhere?

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