[Pkg-ofed-devel] State of OFED for Debian squeeze

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Tuesday 13 July 2010 17:26:03 Josselin Mouette, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,

Hello josselin

> I’m trying to understand the status of OFED packages. With the approach
> of the squeeze release it would be nice to have a consistent and
> working Infiniband stack in Debian.

Sure, as i am the one who cleaned the packaging for ofed 1.4.2 to be used 
at edf R&D clamart, and pushed them into debian i will answer to your 
questions ;-)
 
> First of all, which version of OFED do you intend to ship for squeeze?
> I see that OFED 1.5.1 is packaged in the SVN, but has not been
> uploaded. Some 1.5.1 packages, like libibverbs, have been uploaded but
> with a different changelog than the one in the SVN. Which version is
> being worked on? Some packages like libnes are ready in the SVN but
> haven’t been uploaded to unstable yet.

I intend to ship th 1.5.1 version in squeeze, the libibverbs in squeeze is 
used the one in svn is only for some fonctionalities not merge upstream, 
so the libibverbs in squeeze is the right one.

> I’m also wondering the state of the relationship between userspace and
> kernel modules. Does the 2.6.32 kernel as shipped by Debian work with
> the OFED stack at version 1.4.2 or 1.5.1? Will this stack go on working
> with newer kernels? Will we need a patched kernel with the latest
> drivers? I guess that’s the purpose of the ofa-kernel package.

the 1.5.1 is needed to have full fonctionnalites as the 1.4.2 was only 
working till 2.6.26, i intend to have a clean ofa-kernel package for 
2.6.32. will look into this

> If a number of sponsored uploads can help get to a consistent state,
> I’m eager to help - we will need a decent IB stack for our own purposes
> at my work, anyway.

Sure we always need uploader to split the load of uplading and i also need 
it for my work. i intend to start working on clean packages this week and 
will ping you when necessary

Cheers
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