Re: Update documentation and information about OFED
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Benjamin Drung
<benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 05.03.2018, 16:12 -0600 schrieb Brian Smith:
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Valerio Pachera <sirio81@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I've been looking about ofed mostly to help a friend finding the
>> > right
>> > package to install on debian.
>> >
>> > By searchin 'debian ofed' the very first result is:
>> >
>> > https://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/howto/infiniband-howto.html
>> >
>> > I wrote to pgk-ofed-devel (as found in the documentation) because
>> > the repo
>> > isn't available.
>> > I got a reply from Brian Smith with good information.
>> > Brian points pout that the documentation and the mailing list are
>> > obsolete.
>> >
>> > Is anyone in this group willing to update infomations on alioth?
>> > I noticed the proget has been ported to salsa.
>> >
>> > https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/pkg-ofed
>> >
>> > The file how-to
>> > https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/pkg-ofed/blob/master/howto/infinib
>> > and-howto.sgml
>> > is still refering to alioth.
>> >
>> > I simply suggest to update or remove obsolete documentation.
>> >
>>
>> As alioth is marked for decommissioning, it probably needs to be
>> configured to permanently redirect those links "somewhere". The salsa
>> link that Valerio referenced is the code to generate the infiniband
>> howto. Has there been any work done to publish this (and other
>> pkg-ofed) documentation on a new server?
>
> I am not aware that any work was done.
>
> I skimmed through the obsolete documentation and here are some thoughts
> about the update:
>
> * rdma-core bundles most of the source package
> * The packages are available in Debian 10 (buster) and on
> stretch-backports
> * The binary package rdma-core takes care of loading all
> the kernel modules
> * rdma-ndd (in rdma-core) takes care of naming the node
> * If you want newer code, grab it from
> https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
>
Perhaps the documentation should be updated and migrated to
https://wiki.debian.org/InfiniBand? That location would make it a lot
easier to find. I can take a crack at it if nobody else is interested
in pursuing this.
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