Re: ANNOUCE: OpenIB InfiniBand software

[Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:00:59PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Several people have requested that we split the possibly-encumbered
> SDP code into a separate package so that they don't have to download
> it to get the free code.  To allow that, I have split the kernel code
> into two packages:
> 
>     infiniband-kernel-2004-03-05.tar.bz2
>     infiniband-kernel-sdp-2004-03-05.tar.bz2
> 

Since the openib.org mailing lists don't seem to be alive yet, I'll
bring this up here..

Can we get this split out into the following components?

	* kernel level infiniband access layer
	* lowlevel hardware driver (aka mellanox driver)
	* all other 'upper layer protocols'

All the existing code has big problems with how it interfaces to the
kernel memory management.. it doesn't use the regular interfaces like
get_user_pages, pci_map_page, and pci_map_sq, and goes and looks at the
guts of the pagetables directly. 

This is either a problem with the kernel interfaces made available, or a
design issue with the existing codebases. Can someone please tell me
which it is?

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