[ofa-general] Debian/Ubuntu status

Wed Nov 7 11:21:45 PST 2007

 > Our big need is IPoIB and to be able to compile Lustre and OpenMPI against
 > it. I'm just not sure if all this exists in ibverbs. I understand that
 > libmthca is for the HCA which we have.

IPoIB is enabled in any Ubuntu/Debian kernel from the past year or
two.  I don't know what Lustre needs but I suspect it just needs a
modern kernel.  The version of openmpi in Debian lenny and Ubuntu
hardy is 1.2.4 and is already built with IB support.

 - R.