[Pkg-ofed-devel] Upgrading to wheezy & Infiniband...

[Thomas Besser]

Hi all,

I started with infiniband in 2011 and running a 4 node storage cluster 
over infiniband (glusterfs rdma) since then on squeeze.

I'm using unofficial packages (deb http://realloc.spb.ru/ofed/ squeeze 
main) and following releases:

ii  ofa-kernel-modules-2 1.5.2-2+2.6.32-31    InfiniBand kernel modules 
for Linux (kernel 2.6.32-5-amd
ii  opensm               3.3.7-OFED-1.5.2-2   An Infiniband subnet manager
ii  ofed                 1.5.2-2              OpenFabrics Infiniband 
Enterprise Distribution
ii  ofed-docs            1.5.2-2              Documentation for OFED 
Infiniband software
ii  librdmacm1           1.0.13-OFED-1.5.2-2  A library for managing 
RDMA connections
ii  libibcm1             1.0.5-OFED-1.5.2-2   InfiniBand Communication 
Manager (CM) library
ii  libibdm1             1.5.4-0.1.g0464fe6-O InfiniBand network 
diagnostic library
ii  libibmad5            1.3.6-OFED-1.5.2-2   Infiniband Management 
Datagram (MAD) library
ii  libibnetdisc5        1.5.7-OFED-1.5.2-2   Infiniband diagnostics library
ii  libibumad3           1.3.6-OFED-1.5.2-2   InfiniBand Userspace 
Management Datagram (uMAD) library
ii  libibverbs1          1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b- A library for direct 
userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/i
ii  ibverbs-utils        1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b- Examples for the 
libibverbs library
ii  libumad2sim0         0.5-0.1.g327c3d8-OFE An InfiniBand fabric simulator

I want to upgrade to wheezy in the next time. Followed the discussions 
here about newer packages in wheezy, which was not possible because of 
the feature freeze.

So what is the preferred way to getting newer versions for wheezy? Self 
backporting from experimental (e.g. opensm)? Or has anyone done this 
already and could provide unofficial packages?

If I remember correctly I needed formerly the 'ofa-kernel-modules' 
although some modules are in the vanilla kernel. Is this still correct?

Thanx for any advice!

Regard
Thomas

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