[Pkg-ofed-devel] Infiniband status in Debian

Roland Dreier roland at digitalvampire.org
Mon May 21 19:48:42 UTC 2012


> I am a long time Debian user and I would definitely prefer using Debian.
> But from what I understand is that Debian currently contains old Infiniband
> utilities and drivers.

I'm sure you guys have seen the OpenFabrics announcement that suggests
that users get RDMA software from their distribution rather than using
OFED.  Of course this only works if the software in the distribution is
reasonably new.

I think the packages I maintain in Debian (libibverbs, librdmacm,
libmlx4 etc) are in good shape, with essentially the latest upstream
versions.  The Debian kernel is also quite good, being based on 3.2
currently and with a strong active team updating to new versions.

The biggest problem I see is with opensm, where the version in the
archive is extremely old, so old that it eg doesn't support bringing
up FDR links.  I'd be happy to NMU a newer version of opensm, but I
am holding off because of the earlier message that updated packages
are being worked on this month.

Do you guys see other gaps in what is in Debian?

 - Roland
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