[openfabrics-ewg] Rollup patch for ipath and OFED

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 15 06:42:32 PDT 2006


    Tziporet> Pay attention that we cannot take the new code with so
    Tziporet> many changes to API and core for 1.1.  When it is in
    Tziporet> kernel (I guess 2.6.19) it will be in OFED too (maybe
    Tziporet> 1.2 or 1.1.1)

Agreed -- in particular the new ipath code for mmap()ed queues
requires ABI-incompatible changes to libibverbs that will only go into
the libibverbs 1.1-pre tree, and OFED 1.1 should still ship libibverbs
1.0, which has a frozen ABI.

 - R.




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