[Users] Difference between flint and mstflint?

[Narayan Desai]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ira Weiny <weiny2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:16:16 -0600
> Susan Coulter <markus at lanl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> Someone from Mellanox can correct me ... but flint comes from an rpm called "mft" which only comes with MLNX OFED.
>> While "mstflint" comes from an rpm called "mstflint" which is part of the standard OFED release.
>
> That is right.  flint is "proprietary" and mstflint is the open version with less functionality.  However, I don't know if they share the same code base.  As a developer I have not worked with it much since it is just something the admins can load on their own.  But what I do know is there are some useful tools in mft which require loading of a driver.
>
> <shameless plug>
> I have asked Mellanox if they would open source the "mft" package and they said they would think about it...  ;-)
> </plug>

Yeah, this would be great. I've managed to get it working on ubuntu
using alien, but it would be a lot nicer to be able to do native
builds.
 -nld