Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nick Khamis <symack@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Myrient Fiberchannel Drivers
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:21:01
Message-Id: CAGWRaZbY5yyLaJUd3gQaY4NDEOiSdsfLJcv-7s-Jy9wM3xXA+Q@mail.gmail.com
1 Hello Everyone,
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3 On our test machines we are using and EOL Myrinet fibercahnnel card:
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5 01:05.0 Network controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myrinet 2000 Scalable Cluster
6 Interconnect (rev 03)
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8 The problem is that their open source driver only supports up to 2.6
9 kernels. And with us running gentoo 3.x kernel headers we are just not
10 going back to that for reasons known to the list...
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12 Are there:
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14 * any generic drivers we can use?
15 * Can we hack the driver to run on the servers?
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17 I hope I did not just purchase hardware that our OS does not support.
18 It's been a while since i've done that....
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21 Your help is greatly appreciated,
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23 Nick.