How To Install rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. rdma.noarch is Infiniband/iWARP Kernel Module Initializer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rdma.noarch`

User space initialization scripts for the kernel InfiniBand/iWARP drivers

We can use yum to install rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rdma.noarch.

Install rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rdma.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rdma.noarch

How To Uninstall rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rdma.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rdma.noarch

rdma.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/modprobe.d/mlx4.conf
/etc/rdma
/etc/rdma/mlx4.conf
/etc/rdma/rdma.conf
/etc/rdma/sriov-vfs
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ib
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ib
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-ipoib.rules
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/05rdma
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/05rdma/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/cxgb3.conf
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/cxgb4.conf
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/libmlx4.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rdma.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/98-rdma.rules
/usr/libexec/mlx4-setup.sh
/usr/libexec/rdma-fixup-mtrr.awk
/usr/libexec/rdma-init-kernel
/usr/libexec/rdma-set-sriov-vf

References

rdma.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdma.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.