[Users] Is there anybody out there?

[Narayan Desai]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Joe Landman
<landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 10:49 AM, Susan Coulter wrote:
>>
>>
>> :)    ... besides being a Pink Floyd lyric ... just wondering if folks
>> are getting these emails.
>
>
> Just signed up to the list.  Got this one.
>

Ditto; I got the message as well.

>>
>> I failed to complete the second half of the email list registration back
>> on August 10.
>> Just completed the process yesterday, so perhaps there has already been
>> some traffic.
>>
>> It would be great to get some discussion flowing on this list - it will
>> help create a presence on the web.
>>
>> Even if folks are just letting others know what they are up to.
>>
>
> We've been working on fixing up install.pl in the OFED distros to build on
> later kernels for our units/customers.  Got stymied in the 3.x period until
> we found the 3.x downloads at the OFED site.

According to discussions at the OFA users meeting a few weeks ago,
ofa-kernel bits aren't needed for kernels newer than 3.2.0; they have
been merged upstream. We were spinning our wheels on similar issues
until Ira told me that. The mellanox OFED may be a different story,
but I'm not sure about that.

> Basically we have to work to unwind some of the build business logic that
> prevents specific features/capability from being built for anything but
> specific linux distro versions.

If you're looking for ubuntu bits, I've built a set of some of the
latest tools for ubuntu precise; there is a ppa at:
https://launchpad.net/~narayan-desai/+archive/infiniband/
 -nld