[Users] Centos 6.4 support

[Narayan Desai]

I don't have a problem with the packages I have in my ppa being coped to
the ofa-ofed one. What is the long term plan for maintenance of these?

My big question is whether i keep my archive active or not; I think that
really depends on what the canonical plans are for ofed. I'm not sure if
you guys will want everything, or will be keeping up to date aggressively
or not.

Also, since mellanox is starting to release bits for ubuntu, how will those
fit in?
thanks.
 -nld


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Samantha Jian-Pielak <
samantha.jian-pielak at canonical.com> wrote:

>  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, 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. 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>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] *On Behalf Of *Andrei Mikhailovsky
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2013 10:20 AM
>> *To:* Peter Kjellström
>> *Cc:* 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>
>> *To: *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>
>>
>> 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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