[ewg] OFED-1.5 GA is available

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Hi,
I am pleased to announce that OFED-1.5 GA release is done

Notes:

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.5/release/OFED-1.5.tgz
Or
http://69.55.239.13/builds/ofed-1.5/release/OFED-1.5.tgz


To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/  for
OFED 1.5

Vladimir & Tziporet

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Release information:
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Linux Operating Systems:
         - RedHat EL4 up7        2.6.9-78.ELsmp
         - RedHat EL4 up8        2.6.9-89.ELsmp
         - RedHat EL5 up3        2.6.18-128.el5
         - RedHat EL5 up4        2.6.18-164.el5
         - SLES10 SP2            2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
         - SLES10 SP3            2.6.16.60-0.54-smp
         - SLES11                2.6.27.19-5-default
         - OEL 4 up7             2.6.9-78.ELsmp
         - OEL 4 up8             2.6.9-89.ELsmp
         - CentOS5.3             2.6.18-128.el5
         - CentOS5.4             2.6.18-164.el5
         - Fedora Core12         2.6.31.5-127.fc12    *
         - OpenSuSE 11.2         2.6.31.5-0.1-default *
         - kernel.org            2.6.29, 2.6.30,
                                 2.6.31 and 2.6.32    *

        * Minimal QA for these versions

Systems:
        * x86_64
        * x86
        * ia64
        * ppc64



Main Changes from OFED-1.4.2
============================
1. General changes
         o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
         o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
           http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
           See BUILD_ID for exact location
         o Qlogic replaced low level driver from ipath to qib.

- SDP
         o Performance improvements
         o Zero copy in beta level

- uDAPL
         o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u)  with IB UD based CM per process. More
           scalable then rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
         o Common code base with WinOF 2.1.
         o Bug fixes.


- perftest
         o Renamed tests:
           ib_rdma_bw  -> rdma_bw
           ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat

- Management
         o OpenSM
           - Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm.
           - Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implemented)
           - Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
           - Weighted Lid Matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR).
           - I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree).
           - MGID to MLID compression - infrastructure for many MGIDs to single MLID
             compression.
	* OpenSM release notes are not updated in the OFED-1.5 docs. Please refer
           to opensm_release_notes-3.3.txt coming with opensm RPM

- MPI:
         a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
         b. Open MPI 1.4
         c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
         d. MPI tests 3.2

- iSER:
         o Available only on kernel.org 2.6.30, 2.6.31 and 2.6.32

- NFS-RDMA
         o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30.
           kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
         o NFS-RDMA is in beta level. Will be GA in OFED-1.5.1

2. Bug fixes
      See attached.

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