[Pkg-ofed-devel] Added libhfi1 repository to pkg-ofed, ITP #862754

[Ana Guerrero Lopez]

Hi Brian,

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:00:55PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have added a libhfi1 repository to the pkg-ofed git tree. This repo will
> contain the libibverbs driver for Intel Omni-Path hardware. The ITP bug for
> libhfi1 is #862754: ITP: libhfi1 -- Userspace driver for Intel Omni-Path
> fabric interface.

After the release of stretch, a new package rdma-core:
https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
will be packaged in Debian by Benjamin and it'll include all the userspace
libraries. So packaging libhfi1 standalone doesn't make any sense at this
moment.

Ana