Re: Update documentation and information about OFED
Am Dienstag, den 06.03.2018, 20:33 -0600 schrieb Brian Smith:
> 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.htm
> > > > > l
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
>
> 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.
Agreed. Feel free to go ahead.
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Benjamin Drung
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