The installer will warn you if you attempt to compile any of the
above packages and do not have the prerequisites installed.
-*** Important Note for open-iscsi users:
- Installing iSER as part of OFED installation will also install open-iscsi.
- Before installing OFED, please uninstall any open-iscsi version that may
- be installed on your machine. Installing OFED with iSER support while
- another open-iscsi version is already installed will cause the installation
- process to fail.
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4. How to download and extract the OFED Distribution
./OFED-X.X.X/install.sh -c <path>/ofed.conf -net <path>/ofed_net.conf
- Note: It is possible to rename and/or edit the ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf
- files. Thus it is possible to change user choices (observing the
- original format). See examples of ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf under
- OFED-X.X.X/docs.
+Notes:
+------
+a. It is possible to rename and/or edit the ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf files.
+ Thus it is possible to change user choices (observing the original format).
+ See examples of ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf under OFED-X.X.X/docs.
+
+b. To make debugging kernel issues easier, we recommend setting the following
+ environment variable before building OFED:
+ export OPENIB_KERNEL_EXTRA_CFLAGS=-g
+ This will attach debug info to generated kernel binaries without affecting
+ their speed.
+
+c. Important note for open-iscsi users:
+ Installing iSER as part of OFED installation will also install open-iscsi.
+ Before installing OFED, please uninstall any open-iscsi version that may
+ be installed on your machine. Installing OFED with iSER support while
+ another open-iscsi version is already installed will cause the installation
+ process to fail.
+
Install Process Results:
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