A few weeks ago, I’ve been busy at work updating the OFED packaging for OFED 1.5.2. We needed a version of the stack newer than what’s (partially) available in Squeeze. As this has now been tested, we are all happy to contribute this work to Debian, courtesy of my customer, EDF.
This morning, I’ve pushed out packages for OFED 1.5.2 to the pkg-ofed SVN repository on Alioth. The packages should be made available in experimental at some point too, though a number of them will have to go through NEW.
With this update, I’ve cleaned up & updated the packaging where needed and also made two important changes that I need to highlight:
- package versions are now formed by the package version given in the BUILD_ID file shipped with OFED, postfixed with the OFED release they belong to. This gives, for instance, libibfoo 1.3.6-OFED-1.5.2-1. This makes it easier to identify OFED components and the OFED release they come from.
- InfiniBand driver modules for libibverbs have been renamed to ibverbs-driver-foo and the libibverbs modules are now installed to /usr/lib/ibverbs/drivers. This cleans up the packaging as the shared objects, that were previously shipped in libfoo packages, are not shared libraries but modules for libibverbs.
A number of libraries have changed their interfaces and bumped their soversions. libibcommon is gone, it has been folded into libibumad. The API/ABI between libibverbs and the IB driver modules has changed, so the new libibverbs comes with appropriate Breaks in place.
Thanks to Benoît Mortier from pkg-ofed for his 2-day IB & OFED crash course that was instrumental in getting started with the OFED maze.