[Users] Centos 6.4 support
Samantha Jian-Pielak
samantha.jian-pielak at canonical.com
Fri May 24 17:03:56 PDT 2013
On 05/24/2013 03:43 PM, Narayan Desai wrote:
> 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?
I think having a Launchpad project and team/ppa for OFED is good for two
use cases. 1, for developers to check out the latest code and who can't
wait for it to be available in debian/unstable or ubuntu/universe, and
2, for people who want to check out the latest code on a specific
version of Ubuntu, such as the current LTS 12.04. Given the differences
in release cadences, I think these two use cases will remain true until
all software projects from various companies have the same release
cadence. This is a community project and should be maintained by the
community developers/users. It's set up so people can report issues or
requests via Launchpad and all what comes out of it will be easily
(relatively) known to the community by going to a central LP project
rather than digging into mailing list archive/mailing someone who you
think might know/googling. I myself do not have a long term plan for
maintenance, but it's been on my todo list to help with packaging in my
spare time. I am putting my Ubuntu community hat on, not the Canonical
hat.
>
> My big question is whether i keep my archive active or not;
If we start pushing packages to this LP team ppa, advertising it and
directing people to use the packages in the PPA, if I were you, I would
push the packages here so that I get more testing on those packages.
> 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.
Canonical is the commercial entity behind Ubuntu, it needs commercial
incentives to back up the engineering resources it requires to support
official support for OFED, and we haven't seen enough to break the
threshold.
>
> Also, since mellanox is starting to release bits for ubuntu, how will
> those fit in?
I don't know the details. I'd assume that particular version of packages
are tested against Mellanox cards on particular Ubuntu releases. This
provides the assurance to the Mellanox customers. I think they could use
this Launchpad platform to get more testing feedback before the release.
Just my 2 cents.
Samantha
> thanks.
> -nld
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Samantha Jian-Pielak
> <samantha.jian-pielak at canonical.com
> <mailto: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
> <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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