[ewg] RE: Delaying OFED 1.3 alpha release to next week

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Fri Sep 21 08:29:46 PDT 2007



Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote:
> Hello Tziporet!
>> Due to some last minutes submissions that are not yet taken and some
>> problems with the
>> install script I delay the OFED 1.3 alpha release to next week.
>>
>> I also think we should agree on a new 1.3 schedule based on the changes
>> in the alpha release.
> We're testing and backporting ehca on various kernel versions and distros.
> We'll have our backport patches ready by Tue next week.
>> Another thing to consider is base the kernel code on 2.6.24 and in this
>> way to reduce the amount of patches we have
> I would prefer this option, because we have at the moment about 15
> patches in queue for 2.6.24.
> 

I agree.  I'd rather see ofed-1.3 on a 2.6.24 base and keep ofed-1.2.5 
alive a little longer...

Steve



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