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

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Sun Apr 26 05:58:27 PDT 2009


On 14:31 Sun 26 Apr     , Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> > 
> > It should be compatible with the OFED 1.4 userspace.
> > 
> Beware -- you should not use OFED userspace with a non-ofed kernel for ConnectX HCAs.

I don't think that it is affected all userspace packages (personally I'm
never using OFED kernels).

> In general, you should not use OFED userspace libraries with non-OFED kernel distributions.

In general such requirement seems fundamentally bad for me. OFED goal is
to provide support for IB and iWARP, and not to develop its own linux
kernel.

Sasha



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