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mstflint4 package

  1. Bug #1470167
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Comment 3 for bug 1470167

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Rafael David Tinoco (rafaeldtinoco) wrote : Re: [Bug 1470167] mstflint doesn't support Mellanox ConnectX-4 HCAs

Hello Kamal,

No problem! So you are using Vivid.

Thank you, we will be awaiting the ConnectX HBA.

Correct if I’m wrong but, judging by previous communication, it looks like ConnectX-4 (mlx5) is going to be supported in Kernel 4.2, isn’t it ? This kernel will be available for Wily and Vivid LTS kernel (when it is backported from Wily to Vivid by our HWE - Hardware Enablement - program).

I’m only thinking that depending on the size of the cherry-pick (or backport) it may not be suitable for a SRU - Stable Release Update - since it is adding new features and not fixing any bug. That is why I was worried about Wily only.

Anyway, my proposal here, since I don’t have the HBA yet, is this: You don’t need to test Debian, only Debian’s version: 4.0.1+1.43.g97d7275-1. Since the upstream development don’t use tags (which would be much easier for distro packaging) I think that they are putting git commit ids so we can track package versions.

So I kindly ask you to checkout version 4.0.1 (using commit g97d7275) and compile it on a Ubuntu Vivid (or Wily). That will tell us if Debian version is ConnectX-4 aware. If not, I’ll propose Debian to sync latest version and then propose Ubuntu to pull things from Debian. Please provide feedback on Debian’s version.

Thank you very much Kamal,

Best Regards

Rafael Tinoco