[Pkg-ofed-devel] Infiniband status in Debian

[Benoit Mortier]

Le lundi 21 mai 2012 21:48:42, Roland Dreier a écrit :
> > 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.

Hello,

> 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.

sure ..

> 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.

yes i'am the guy who made the annonce and they have to be ready by end of 
the month.

Having the ofed stack in debian is important so i'am devoted to have 1.5.4 
in wheezy and will backport new version to wheezy after his release 

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