Enabling OFED by default.

[Matthew Macy]

Sorry, this got sorted in to spam.

Do not enable in tree linuxkpi by default. It will definitely interfere with out of tree graphics work, which would harm far far more users than it benefits.

If anything GENERIC needs to be getting smaller. Please do not do this. It is an all around bad idea.

-M



---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 03:31:10 -0700  Hans Petter Selasky<hps at selasky.org> wrote ----
 > On 05/23/16 12:20, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: 
 > > On 0306T1105, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: 
 > >> On 03/05/16 16:56, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: 
 > >>> On 0303T1128, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: 
 > >>>> On 02/11/16 21:53, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: 
 > >>>>> Hi.  I have a question related to the iSER integration I'm working on. 
 > >>>>> It would be nice if it was working out of the box, which requires building 
 > >>>>> with OFED by default.  Do you have any thoughts about it?  Thanks! 
 > >>>>> 
 > >>>> 
 > >>>> Hi, 
 > >>>> 
 > >>>> One issue which must be fixed in the coming ibcore update is this: 
 > >>>> 
 > >>>>> linking kernel 
 > >>>>> addr.o: In function `addr_resolve': 
 > >>>>> /usr/img/freebsd/sys/ofed/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:(.text+0xec0): undefined reference to `toe_l2_resolve' 
 > >>>> 
 > >>>> The function toe_l2_resolve() is currently only built into a module, and 
 > >>>> we need to make it available into the kernel aswell. 
 > >>> 
 > >>> Hm, OK.  Do you have any ETA for that? 
 > >>> 
 > >>>> BTW: Did you get any more answers on this topic? 
 > >>> 
 > >>> No, not yet.  Perhaps I should ask on arch@ then? 
 > >>> 
 > >>> 
 > >> 
 > >> We currently working on a OFED upgrade, so it should be after that. 
 > >> 
 > >> We're trying to land it before 11.0 is out. 
 > > 
 > > Hi.  What it looks like? 
 > > 
 >  
 > Hi, 
 >  
 > The OFED 3.2 upgrade won't be part of 11.0. 
 >  
 > Regarding OFED 3.2 by default in the kernel, it might cause some trouble  
 > for the DRM2 work done by Matthew Macy, CC'ed. 
 >  
 > Matthew, what do you think if the LINUXKPI is in the kernel by default? 
 >  
 > --HPS 
 >  
 >