[Pkg-ofed-devel] Infiniband status in Debian

[Thomas Besser]

Hi all,

yet another try to get informations about actual status of ofed in Debian.

Last try over the mailing list was: 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ofed-devel/2013-April/001017.html

Am 22.05.2012 09:20, schrieb 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

Whats the right way to get an actual ofed stack for wheezy?

Regards
Thomas