Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-04-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2019-04-07 at 11:31 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 26/03/2019 19:05, Jason Gunthorpe: > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 02:51:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 26/03/2019 10:21, Christian Ehrhardt: > > > > > > rdma-core configures modprobe for ib/rdma modules, installs > > > > > > some >

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-04-07 Thread Thomas Monjalon
26/03/2019 19:05, Jason Gunthorpe: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 02:51:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 26/03/2019 10:21, Christian Ehrhardt: > > > > > > > > > > rdma-core configures modprobe for ib/rdma modules, installs some > > > > > helper daemons and installs some udev rules. It certainly

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 02:51:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 26/03/2019 10:21, Christian Ehrhardt: > > > > > > > > rdma-core configures modprobe for ib/rdma modules, installs some > > > > helper daemons and installs some udev rules. It certainly makes > > > > administration of the server an

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-26 Thread Thomas Monjalon
26/03/2019 10:21, Christian Ehrhardt: > > > > > > rdma-core configures modprobe for ib/rdma modules, installs some > > > helper daemons and installs some udev rules. It certainly makes > > > administration of the server an easier task, but it isn't *required* > > > when configuring a Debian server

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-26 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
> > > > rdma-core configures modprobe for ib/rdma modules, installs some > > helper daemons and installs some udev rules. It certainly makes > > administration of the server an easier task, but it isn't *required* > > when configuring a Debian server for rdma and user-space ibverbs. > > I didn't

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 01:26:04PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:51 AM Christian Ehrhardt > wrote: > > > > > ibverbs is provided by rdma-core project. > > > Is it a separate package in your case? > > > > No it is part of the same src package. > > > > > Yes, you need

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-21 Thread Brian Smith
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:51 AM Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > > ibverbs is provided by rdma-core project. > > Is it a separate package in your case? > > No it is part of the same src package. > > > Yes, you need libmlx4, libmlx5 and libibverbs. > > It is described in the doc: > >

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-21 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
> ibverbs is provided by rdma-core project. > Is it a separate package in your case? No it is part of the same src package. > Yes, you need libmlx4, libmlx5 and libibverbs. > It is described in the doc: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#prerequisites Well that is the problem,

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-20 Thread Thomas Monjalon
20/03/2019 12:51, Christian Ehrhardt: > @rdma-core team > - does ibverbs1/ibverbs-providers generally need rdma-core to be useful? ibverbs is provided by rdma-core project. Is it a separate package in your case? > - if so why isn't it at least a recommends from those packages > @Thomas > - do

Bug#925141: Should rdma-core be a dependency of ibverbs-providers or libverb1

2019-03-20 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Package: rdma-core Version: 22.1-1 X-Debbugs-CC: tho...@monjalon.net, bl...@debian.org FYI on CC I have put some more people: CC: Luca who maintains DPDK with me CC: Thomas for DPDK<->Mellanox knowledge that could help Hi, this might be more a request to understand the correct dependencies than