Quoting Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Subject: Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] modules compilation status for OFED 1.2
Hi Michael! > > I need to be more specific here: ibmebus requires two symbols in > > arch/ppc64/kernel/dma.c to be exported, which means one really needs > > to rebuild and install the patched kernel. As far as I understood > > from Michael, when we looked at ofed-1.1, that approach is not > > supported by ofed build process. > Yes, I don't have a solution for that on ppc. > For other modules we simply worked around the problem copying bits from newer > kernels but this might not work for you. > No. It can not, because two symbols need to be exported from > rhel4.5/sles9sp3 kernel. > I'm looking for a solution for users/customers that are willing to use > ofed-1.2 plus ehca on rhel4.5/sles9sp3 and to patch their kernel themselves. > Can we > include those backport patches in ofed-1.2 under a dir contrib as we have > on svn? That dir can be placed in kernel_addons or the like. > I can then provide a howto for ehca in such one cases. > Thanks > Nam This is possible. Please put these under your ~/public_html on OFA server for now, we'll find some place to put it when ofed 1.2 feature freeze kicks in and Vlad starts working on packaging. -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
