[ofa-general] OFED and Ubuntu Linux

[Roland Dreier]

 > Is the OFED software stack supported on Ubuntu Linux ? While OFED
 > 1.2.5.4 compiles fine on Ubuntu Linux 7.10, I got the following errors
 > while installing the RPM's:

Just out of curiosity, what packages from OFED are you interested in
using on Ubuntu?  My goal would be to get most IB/RDMA-related stuff
into the upstream Debian/Ubuntu distributions directly, so that you
don't have to mess around with OFED at all.

Currently, Ubuntu 7.10 has a 2.6.22 kernel, which has most IB support
built in, and the ubuntu archive has packages for libibverbs and
libmthca in universe.  8.04 (Hardy) will have a 2.6.24 kernel and adds
openmpi packages (built with libibverbs support).  I have libmlx4
packaged for hardy in my PPA:

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/roland.dreier/ubuntu hardy main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/roland.dreier/ubuntu hardy main

(libmlx4 is in Debian testing so it should propagate automatically
into Ubuntu universe for Hardy+1).

I am planning on packaging librdmacm for Debian and Ubuntu in the next
few weeks.  The packages will appear in my PPA and should be ready in
plenty of time for Hardy+1.  Are there any other packages you are
looking for?

 - R.