Re: Update documentation and information about OFED
Perhaps https://wiki.debian.org/RDMA would be a better topic, as the
documentation would potentially encompass InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP,
Omni-Path, libfabric and possibly UCX.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Brian Smith
<bsmith@systemfabricworks.com> wrote:
> 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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