[ofw] WIX installer questions concerning ConnectX driver install

[Fab Tillier]

Hi Leo,

Can you describe the driver stack and device node hierarchy for this drivers?  What does the bus driver component do?  What devices does it report, what do the child devices do?

Thanks!
-Fab

-----Original Message-----
From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Leonid Keller
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:53 AM
To: Stan C. Smith; Tzachi Dar
Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] WIX installer questions concerning ConnectX driver install

See below

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Stan C. Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:58 AM
> To: Tzachi Dar
> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [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?
Has to, not checked yet
>
> 2) In the case where only connectX hardware is present, how
> does the IB bus driver get loaded?
>    Same method used by mthca?
>    Is the IB bus driver the same for ConnectX & mthca?
        yes, all the same
>
> 3) Due to the addition of the ConnectX driver, I'm
> considering separating the WinOF
>    installed IB bus driver files into a separate folder in
> order to make dpinst.exe happy.
>    connectX\
>    mthca\
>    ibbus\
>    Do you foresee any problems with this approach?
Maybe on Longhorn.

>
> 4) What is the list of required files for installing a
> ConnectX driver?

As for now:

  MLX4_BUS
        mlx4_bus.inf
        mlx4_bus.cdf
        mlx4_bus.sys
        WdfCoInstaller01005.dll

  MLX4_HCA
        mlx4_hca.inf
        mlx4_hca.cdf
        mlx4_hca.sys
        mlx4u.dll
        mlx4ud.dll              // debug version
        mlx4_hca32.cdf  // 32-bit binaries for x64 platform
        mlx4u32.dll             // 32-bit binaries for x64 platform
        mlx4u32d.dll    // 32-bit binaries for x64 platform
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stan.
>
>
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