On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 17:31 +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote: > > Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > > Not supporting ppc is a problem to a certain extent. I can't speak for > > SuSE, but at least for Red Hat, ppc is the default and over rides ppc64. > > The ppc64 arch is less efficient than the ppc arch on ppc64 processors > > except when large memory footprints are involved. So, for things like > > opensm, ibv_*, etc. the ppc arch should actually be preferred, and the > > ppc64 arch libs should be present for those end user apps that need > > large memory access. That fact that dapl doesn't compile on ppc at all > > is problematic as well. In addition, what are you guys doing about the > > lack of asm/atomic.h (breaking udapl compiles on ppc64 and ia64) going > > forward? I'd look in the packages and see for myself but the svn update > > is taking forever due to those binary rpms packed into svn...ahh, it's > > finally done....ok, still broken. > > > > We don't have here any PPC machine for event for compilation checks :-(
Hmmm..probably should talk to Roland about getting sponsored as a Fedora
Extras developer, then you could kick off builds through the Fedora
build system, which allows you to compile on all the arches.
> > Without getting into an argument over the usage of that include, suffice
> > it to say that the include file is gone and builds fails on
> > fc6/rhel5beta. Since the code really only uses low level intrinsics as
> > opposed to high level atomic ops, I made a ppc and ia64 intrinsics
> > header for linux and added it to the dapl package itself to work around
> > the issue.
> >
>
> Please work with James and Arlin to drive these changes to uDAPL.
Sure.
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