[Users] Centos 6.4 support
Samantha Jian-Pielak
samantha.jian-pielak at canonical.com
Fri May 24 11:31:05 PDT 2013
Hi, this is my response before I subscribed to the mailing list..
Narayan, it would be great if you can copy over those packages you have
to https://launchpad.net/~ofa-ofed <https://launchpad.net/%7Eofa-ofed>,
any concerns?
Samantha
=====
Hi,
OFED has been tested against RPM-based distributions only. In the recent
OFED developer workshop, there was a discussion about supporting
Debian-based distro. So the answer to your question 'is OFED 3.5.1
compatible with Ubuntu' is there is no testing done with Ubuntu.
Currently the OFED support on Ubuntu is the same as what have been
pushed upstream (Debian). I put together a list of packages in OFED 3.5
and compared the version of those found in 4 Ubuntu releases, from 11.10
to 13.04. It can be downloaded here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OFED
As you pointed out the infiniband PPA from Roland Dreier, Narayan Desai
from Argnonne National Lab also packaged some for Ubuntu. After my
presentation at the OFED developer workshop last month, I created a
launchpad project and team with the goal to be the place for people to
share the packages with the Ubuntu community
https://launchpad.net/~ofa-ofed <https://launchpad.net/%7Eofa-ofed>. The
idea is it would be great if all packages in the OFED are available in
the Debian universe repo, but if it takes too long to get in Debian,
here is the place to get it. If any (packaging) issues are found, the
burden of fixing can be shared with the community. I have started
working with Prof. DK Panda from Ohio State U. and Intel PSM team. As a
Ubuntu community member, I am interested in helping/facilitating the
support of those packages for Ubuntu. If you are looking for the
blessing on OFED and Ubuntu, IMHO it should come from the OFED EWG.
Samantha
=====
On 05/24/2013 11:22 AM, Narayan Desai wrote:
> I've built an ubuntu PPA of a bunch of the system management-related
> packages from OFED 3.5. It is currently only for 12.04, but i can
> build for newer distributions if it would be useful.
>
> The ppa is here:
> https://launchpad.net/~narayan-desai/+archive/infiniband
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Enarayan-desai/+archive/infiniband>
>
> Comments, questions, etc, are welcome.
> -nld
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com
> <mailto:rsdance at soft-forge.com>> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu has been working with the OFA Interoperability WG and our
> collaboration has led to RDMA support within their distribution.
> To my knowledge they have the equivalent of OFED 1.4.1 support
> right now. OFED 3.5.1 is rpm based and so does not support the
> Debian package system used by Ubuntu.
>
>
>
> I have ”cc” my main contact from Ubuntu who may be able to provide
> more details and the current status.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Rupert
>
>
>
> *From:*users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> <mailto:users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org>
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> <mailto:users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org>] *On Behalf Of
> *Andrei Mikhailovsky
> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2013 10:20 AM
> *To:* Peter Kjellström
> *Cc:* users at lists.openfabrics.org <mailto:users at lists.openfabrics.org>
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Users] Centos 6.4 support
>
>
>
> I will give it a go now and come back.
>
> P.S. I am an unfortunate owner of HP blade switch with QLogic
> mezzanine cards which are so crappy, it's unreal!
>
> I've tried to get them working so many different ways on many
> linux distros and it seems that they only work on CentOS/RHEL.
> That's is why I have to stick with CentOS for the time being as I
> am an Ubuntu guy.
>
> I've just tried Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 with infiniband PPA
> from Roland Dreier and I just can't get this card to work. I've
> got Mellanox cards working perfectly well with the same set of
> tools. Perhaps it's another post which I will make shortly.
>
> By the way, is OFED 3.5.1 compatible with Ubuntu? If so, what
> version has it been tested with?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrei
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Peter Kjellström" <cap at nsc.liu.se <mailto:cap at nsc.liu.se>>
> *To: *users at lists.openfabrics.org <mailto:users at lists.openfabrics.org>
> *Sent: *Friday, 24 May, 2013 3:00:47 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Users] Centos 6.4 support
>
> On Friday 24 May 2013 07:42:49 Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> > I posted about this a month or two ago, I had to downgrade kernel &
> > kernel-devel-2.6.32.279.22.1 to get it to compile, didn't have
> time to
> > look at patching, still don't :( .
>
> You are aware that that kernel has a trivial local root hole, right?
>
> CentOS-6.4 has a quite recent integrated ib-stack so most people
> won't have to
> install OFED though...
>
> /Peter
>
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky
> <andrei at arhont.com <mailto:andrei at arhont.com>>
> wrote:
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I've recently upgraded several of my servers from CentOS 6.3
> to 6.4 and
> > > tried to install OFED 3.5. There were issues with compiling
> compat-rdma
> > > package. I was wondering if there are any patches or release
> candidates
> > > which work with CentOS 6.4? Can't seems to find much info on
> the net
> > > regarding it.
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > >
> > > Andrei
>
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