On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:42 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Quoting Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: [PATCH RFC 00/21] ofed_1_2 - Chelsio Backport to SLES9SP3 > > > > > > Here is the series to back-port the cxgb3 and iw_cxgb3 drivers to > > SLES9SP3. Sorry for the large patch count, but each patch is very > > small and updates or backports a specific file or service needed by the > > chelsio drivers. > > > > It is missing one big part however: netevent notification support for > > neighbour and next hop changes. I'm pondering how to support this > > outside the kernel. I did port the netevent notifier service, but no > > notifications are done as of yet. So this is TBD. But the drivers load > > ok on SLES9SP3 and I'll be testing soon. > > > > Michael, if you have time, please review the various additions/changes > > I've made and tell me what you think. Just trying to get some feedback > > as I go along with these backports... > > BTW, Steve, I wouldn't start working on backports from SLES9. > I'd start with 2.6.19 and go back to 2.6.11 over kernel.org versions, > just making sure they build (we have this build environment on > openfabrics.org, > or its easy to check all versions out from kernel.org git). > In this way you get incrementtall a host of data on what is and what isn't in > which kernel version. > > Then adding support for a distro is just a matter of finding a closest > kernel.org kernel and mostly removing stuff that distro backported from newer > kernels. >
As I jumped into sles9sp3 I realized that's what was done previously. On the other hand, jumping to sles9sp3 probably hit all the backports needed. :-) _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
