[ofa-general] Re: How to tell what OFED rev a distro derived IB modules?

[Jason Gunthorpe]

AFAIK, Ubuntu does not do any work on their IB drivers, so the driver
is stock 2.6.27.

In principle OFED is supposed to start with an upstream kernel and
backport those drivers to various distributions. OFED 1.3 was using
2.6.24, OFED 1.4 is apparently using 2.6.27.

So it should be similar to OFED 1.4

Though bear in mind OFED still patches things with stuff that is not
yet accepted upstream so there will be some differences.

It should be compatible with the OFED 1.4 userspace.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:25:50PM -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> Given the deafening silent "NO", might I suggest that OFED build
> procedures include in a generated RPM:
> 
> 1) The OFED release/version number, and
> 2) The ofed.conf used in the install.pl procedure, much like Linux's
> /proc/config.gz (but it need not be a /proc file).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Chris Worley <worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Using an Ubuntu 8.10 distro w/ a 2.6.27-11 kernel, I'm wondering: from
> > what OFED version were their built-in IB modules derived?
> >
> > The only version message I see is from the MLX4 driver:
> >
> > mlx4_ib: Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand driver v1.0 (April 4, 2008)
> >
> > Would that imply 1.3?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris