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Gleb Chesnokov
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The iSER and distribution guides prescribe OFED 1.5 installation,
deleting packaged RDMA modules, patching kernel builds and applying
host-wide tuning. The Gentoo procedure targets SVN, while the bundled
OCF agents are neither built nor exercised by repository CI.
Commit 025574018e ("isert: Support building against MOFED without
patching the kernel build system") established the supported
header-selection model. Current Makefile conftests and isert-scst
sources define the remaining compatibility and transport limits.
Replace fixed OFED and tuning recipes with those sources and matching
vendor guidance. Reduce the Gentoo and resource-agent documents to
historical integration notes, and spell out their module, sysfs,
daemon, session and storage side effects before any reuse.
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Building the iSER target against external RDMA stacks
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This file previously contained an OFED 1.5.1 installation recipe. That recipe
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stopped RDMA services, recursively removed distribution kernel modules, and
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installed a stack for a specific historical kernel. Do not use those commands
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on a current system.
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Current build behavior
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The iscsi-scst Makefile builds isert-scst when the selected kernel build tree
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enables InfiniBand support. Set KDIR or KVER as defined by the top-level
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Makefile when building for a kernel other than the running kernel.
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When /usr/bin/ofed_info is absent, the Makefile builds against the RDMA headers
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from the selected kernel tree. When it reports MLNX_OFED or OFED-internal, the
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Makefile selects its MOFED path and requires matching installed kernel
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development packages and headers under /usr/src/ofa_kernel/default. It also
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recognizes the legacy RPM-provided kernel-ib-devel and compat-rdma-devel header
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layouts.
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Install external RDMA stacks and their development packages only according to
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the vendor documentation for the exact distribution and kernel. The headers
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and Module.symvers used for isert-scst must match the RDMA modules that will be
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loaded. Never remove distribution modules from /lib/modules manually to prepare
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an SCST build.
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See README.iser for iSER-specific configuration and limitations, and
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../INSTALL.md for the repository build and installation workflow.
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