[ofw] WIX installer questions concerning ConnectX driver install

[Tzachi Dar]

The plan is to support mthca and Connectx simultaneously but this hasn't
been tested currently.

Thanks
Tzachi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fab Tillier [mailto:ftillier at windows.microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:10 AM
> To: Stan C. Smith; Tzachi Dar
> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] WIX installer questions concerning 
> ConnectX driver install
> 
> >Hello,
> >  I'm considering changing the WinOF Installer .msi to selectively 
> >install the current
> >  mthca driver or the ConnectX driver. A few questions if you please:
> >
> >1) Can a Windows system & IB stack support both mthca 
> hardware and connectX simultaneously?
> 
> The HCAs are just PCI adapters to Windows, so the only thing 
> that would prevent multiple HCAs, whether homogeneous or not, 
> from functioning under Windows would be the HCA/IB drivers.
> 
> The IB bus driver/IBAL used to support multiple HCAs 
> simultaneously.  I don't know if this is still tested but I 
> would expect it to still work.
> 
> -Fab
>