[ofa-general] OFED on Centos with 2.6.30.4 generic kernel

[Jack Morgenstein]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 12:58, Robert Dunkley wrote:
> I'm a bit of newbie to kernel building but work on my first custom
> kernel seems to be going well so far. 
> 
> The issue I have is the systems this kernel is destined for are using
> Mellanox infiniband cards, IPOIB (CM), RDMA and Subnet Manager (Systems
> are direct cabled to each other). I noticed support seems to be built-in
> to the kernel for all but the subnet manager. 
> 
> Should I use the built-in kernel support and install the Subnet manager
> separately? Or build a kernel with no infiniband support and then try to
> install OFED? Will OFED even likely install with this sort of setup?

OFED 1.4 will not install (it supports up to kernel 2.6.27 only).
OFED 1.5 is currently under development, supporting up to kernel 2.6.30.
An alpha version (lightly tested only) is currently available.
I do not know how much testing the built-in kernel support has undergone.

-Jack
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
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