Re: [myrinet] Re: Linux 2.4.0 and GM 1.2.3

Bob Felderman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.myrinet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
=> Well, I was under impression that 1.3 is for LANai9 only....
It works for lanai4 and lanai7 too. You probably need 1meg of memory
on the card m2x-pci32C for LANai4 operation.

=> After cursory look on both 1.3.1 and 1.4pre48 it seems neither knows
=> about 2.4.x. Or am I wrong?

You are wrong... ;-) Believe me, gm-1.4pre48 has been ported to linux-2.4.0
and each and every linux-2.4.0testX before that since they saw fit to
muck with kernel data structures and functions every single time they
released a new testX kernel...



=> 
=> --andrew
=> 
=>    >   I'm wondering if anyone managed to build gm-1.2.3 for the new linux
=>    > kernel? I have a bunch of four-ways ES40s (alpha 264 processors) with
=>    > LANai7 cards and would like to migrate from linux 2.2.16 to 2.4.0 for
=>    > various reasons...
=> 
=>    Amusing combination -- you want to run an overly-modern Linux kernel with an
=>    obsolete Myrinet driver?
=> 
=>    -- g
=> 
=>    [ No, I don't think it can be done, but I haven't tried. ]
=> 
=>
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