Chris,

   #1 In first pass (2.8.2), the MIC support only can be run on diskful
   host node. We did not do any support with stateless and statelite. I'll
   try to run MIC support on stateless soon. And hopefully could get your
   experiment of how it works on statelite. The main challenge on statelite
   host is that you need to figure out the readwrite directories and files
   and set them in litefile table.

   #2 You can try that just install the new built driver. I did not have
   experience that rebuild the mic driver.

Thanks
Best Regards
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From:   Christopher Samuel <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected],
Date:   2013/07/30 13:05
Subject:        [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.2 MIC support and updated kernels (was Re:
            xCAT 2.8.2 Released)



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On 30/07/13 11:47, Christopher Samuel wrote:

> Our Phi nodes are all diskless (statelite) and our current install
> process using our custom postinstall scripts works well,

Well that was tempting fate, I just did some checking and noticed that
our config appears to have bitrotted and the bridging we had
configured before no longer works, so I'm going to look into use the
xCAT support for MICs now, especially as we've been lucky and the
naming convention we've used for our MICs matches xCAT's examples. :-)

Two issues that might bite us which I'd love some advice on:

1) All our nodes are diskless statelite, is that expected to work, or
not to work, with the kit?

2) We run the latest RHEL updates on the nodes and that means we've
had to rebuild the Intel MIC kernel module for them (trivial to do),
do we need to roll that into the kit or should we just install that
via yum as we do now?

All the best,
Chris
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