[ofa-general] Infiniband back-to-back without OpenSM?

[Roland Dreier]

 > Hmm, well expanding on my "etc.", at the NFS Connectathon we were
 > trying to install it on a green Fedora 9 system, and the RedHat opensm
 > package (OFED 1.3) wanted the following prerequisites:
 > 	libibcommon
 > 	libibumad
 > 	opensm_lib
 > 	opensm

I think the solution to this is not to do a bunch more work to create an
opensm-free solution, but just to package opensm properly so it can get
into Fedora.  Then installation is just "yum install opensm".

<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join> is a very
detailed step-by-step guide to what is necessary.

 > In addition we needed to install
 > 	libmthca
 > which in turn wanted
 > 	libibverbs

This isn't needed for opensm or NFS/RDMA, but it is very easy on Fedora
9: just "yum install libmthca".

 - R.