[ofa-general] OFED and Ubuntu Linux

[Bart Van Assche]

On Jan 8, 2008 10:10 PM, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>  > 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?

Hello Roland,

I'm looking for iSCSI, iSER initiator, iSER target, SDP initiator, SDP
target and uDAPL support. I'm not sure which are the corresponding
OFED packages -- probably perftest, libibverbs, libibverbs-utils,
libibverbs-devel, libmlx4, libmthca, librdmacm, librdmacm-devel and
ofed-docs ?

Bart Van Assche.