Re: OFED 1.5.4.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Mellanox cards?

2012-06-25 Thread Sebastian Riemer
Hi Chet, On 22/06/12 21:02, Chet Murthy wrote: > > Sebastian, > > Thank you for taking the time to explain these things! It's a little > confusing > >> Here a simple list of matching code: >> OFED-1.5.4 ---> kernel 3.2.x >> OFED-1.5.4.1 ---> kernel 3.3.x > > (1) Is there a more-exhausti

Re: OFED 1.5.4.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Mellanox cards?

2012-06-22 Thread Chet Murthy
Sebastian, Thank you for taking the time to explain these things! It's a little confusing > Here a simple list of matching code: > OFED-1.5.4 ---> kernel 3.2.x > OFED-1.5.4.1 ---> kernel 3.3.x (1) Is there a more-exhaustive list of the right kernel to use with each OFED release? I was g

Re: OFED 1.5.4.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Mellanox cards?

2012-06-22 Thread Sebastian Riemer
Hi Chet, the trick is to check out the latest pkg-ofed source from debian SVN (svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-ofed/) and to update the upstream source by merging the stuff by extracting the source RPMs or even better by importing the source directly from the git repos of the OFED user space. In the

OFED 1.5.4.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Mellanox cards?

2012-06-21 Thread Chet Murthy
Hi, A long while ago, I got OFED 1.5.2 working on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) on Opterons with Mellanox DDR cards. It was a little messy, getting the RPMs compiled, but it was pretty straightforward. Basically, I (a) built a kernel with neither infiniband nor mellanox ethernet drivers, and (b) ran the