[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Doug Ledford]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 07:09 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:29 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > > > >From our dicussion, it seems we should be able to just push the
> > > > > small number of missing bits into RHEL5 directly. That would be
> > > > > nicer of course.
> > > > 
> > > > It depends.  If there's lots of individual changes, it might be easier
> > > > to push the OFED 1.1 change.  But, that depends on when the final OFED
> > > > 1.1 comes out and how much it varies from the existing RPMs.
> > > 
> > > OFED is in deep freeze, so you can already look at it to estimate the amount of
> > > changes against 2.6.18.
> > > Could you look at the diff please so that I know whether it's worth it
> > > to invest in building the minimal patch set for pushing into RHEL5,
> > > or whether you'll push OFED 1.1 into RHEL kernel as is?
> > 
> > Yeah, I'll look over the diff today.
> 
> How does it look?

OK.  The total diffstat is large enough that it's going to be a very
hard sell to include.  I'll try, but it'll be hard.  There is a test
kernel available at my site below.  I haven't even gotten around to
testing it myself yet, I fired off the build last night and it was done
when I came in this morning.  Anyone interested is free to play with it.
Of note is that both ipath and ipoib modules required minor tweaks to
work with the inode-diet patch set which could effect their operation (I
suspect the patch is correct, but haven't tested it).

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