On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:54 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:39 -0500, Brian Long wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:14 -0700, Maestas, Christopher Daniel wrote: > > > I think as long as your ib card will pxe boot, things may work normally. > > > If we ensure the vmlinuz + initrd.img and the has the ib drivers in it, > > > we should be good to go. Just need to make sure the installed kernel > > > has the openib drivers as well. > > > Can you verify if RHEL 4 U3 pxeboot/initrd will have the openIB drivers > > integrated? > > There are no infiniband drivers included in the initrd because the > understanding I have is that you actually _cannot_ use the standard > ioctl methods of network setup and instead have to use some of the newer > netlink functionality. Jeremy, I found an explanation of netlink vs. ioctl here: http://www.wlug.org.nz/LinuxNetlinkSockets I assume loader, which does the initial network setup, would have to understand the netlink method in order to grab stage2 over Infiniband and feed it to Anaconda. Is converting loader to use netlink on your roadmap for FC6? /Brian/
