Shell script to patch MLNX OFED to add back support for MLX4 and EFA

This script has proven to be useful if you're maintaining systems like:

• HPC cluster with OpenHPC
• Red Hat Virtualization and oVirt with Openvswitch

If you have an additional use case please update this documentation with a Pull Request.

• Enterprise Linux 8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Oracle Linux
  • Rocky Linux
  • Alma Linux
  • CentOS

• Mellanox OFED

  • 5.5-1.0.3.2
  • 5.4-3.4.0.0
  • 5.4-3.2.7.2.3
  • 5.4-3.1.0.0
  • 5.4-3.0.3.0
  • 5.4-2.4.1.3
  • 5.4-1.0.3.0
  • 4.9-5.1.0.0
  • 4.9-4.1.7.0
  • 4.9-4.0.8.0
  • 4.9-3.1.5.0
  • 4.9-2.2.6.0
  • 4.9-2.2.4.0
  • 4.9-0.1.7.0

• CodeReady Builder / PowerTools repositories must be enabled

• root privileges are needed for installation

Just run patch-mlnxofed.sh on a machine where MLNX OFED is already installed, and you should be fine.

The script will execute dnf to install the new packages, but it's up to you to install it or not. The resulting RPMs will be available by default on PATCHED-MLNX-OFED directory inside $HOME

This shell script is made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0