Bart Smaalders wrote:
Eric Schlesinger wrote:
It's an IB driver - the driver for an HCA, specifically for the
hermon/ConnectX hca.
If you do a modinfo on nevada you'll find (for x64 anyway):
wave192 43 =>cat /etc/release
Solaris Express Community Edition snv_116 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 01 June 2009
Id Loadaddr Size Info Rev Module Name
160 fffffffff7fb5000 3b118 317 1 hermon (ConnectX IB Driver)
That is an installed system not an install environment right ?
Nearly every VP & director in the company wants their software on the
liveCD installed by default. The sum total of software that will fit is
just under 700 MB. Given the target market of the liveCD, adding all the
IB drivers and support infrastructure doesn't make sense. One of the
nice things about Opensolaris is that you can find and install the
packages you want very easily from a networked repository.
In the specific case of IB is it actually expected or needed that you
can use the IB drivers on the default LiveCD without having done an
install to disk are they needed to boot the LiveCD on certain hardware?
Since best I can tell the equivalent is not available with the DVD or
network install today, right ? The smallest metacluster in SX:CE that
the SUNWhermon package appears in is SUNWprog.
Remember that the LiveCD is mainly these two things:
1) A LiveCD intended for Desktop/Laptop/Workstation "playing"
2) The initial installer program
It isn't intended to be the entire distribution on a single 700Mb CD.
It isn't intended to cover everything in the current SX:CE metaclusters
because a) they are so out of touch with reality b) we need non
hierarchical metaclusters anyway.
I highly suspect that the best thing you can do for IB using customers
is to define a collection of packages with a suitable name to get all
the IB functionality onto the system with a single 'pkg install'.
Similar to what has been done for 'gcc-dev' or 'tx' or 'netbeans'.
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Darren J Moffat
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