Just for the benefit of the community, I am forwarding a mail in which Hal already answered my question (I forgot to hit reply all...).
-----Original Message----- From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:27 PM To: Suresh Shelvapille Subject: RE: [openib-general] drivers.diff patch Hi Suresh, On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:14, Suresh Shelvapille wrote: > Thanks for your help. It is really painful to get this going. If I applied > any of the patches from branches/backport-to-2.6.9 the kernel would not > built. > So I managed to look at the changes needed for drivers/kconfig and > drivers/Makefile in the kernel-patch diff file and applied it, so that the > menu showed the infiniband. And then applied a few patches from the > branches/backport/2.6.9. Now the Kernel builds with the CONFIG_INFINIBAND=y > and CONFIG_INFININBAND_USER_MAD=y. > > If I have anything else set in the CONFIG the build fails. As I said before > I am afraid to take any of the patches from the branches/backport-to-2.6.9 > as even the core modules won't build. Not sure what is broke. > Question is: > Our system (at least in the initial release) will act like a bear bones ib > switch, That configuration (run as a switch; most everyone has run as HCA) is untested so this may need a tweak or two. What I'm referring to is not build related though. > and I am hoping that only MAD packet support would be needed within > the kernel. Are the above two CONFIG_INFINIBAND and > CONFIG_INFININBAND_USER_MAD sufficient? If you want to run OpenSM and/or the management diagnostics, yes. Otherwise, you won't need user MAD configured. You will need some switch driver which I presume you would be adding locally. -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general