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

We tested 1.4pre's with 2.4.0-test's for a couple of months. This past
Wednesday we went production with 1.4pre46 and 2.4.0 on Chiba City
(www.mcs.anl.gov/chiba).  It's working great so far. Thanks Bob and other
Myricom folks!

JP Navarro

Bob Felderman wrote:
> 
> => 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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