[ewg] OFED 1.5 rc1 release is available

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

OFED 1.5-rc1 is available

Notes:

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.5/release/OFED-1.5-rc1.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 up6:       2.6.9-67.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL4 up7:       2.6.9-78.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL4 up8:       2.6.9-89.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5
       - 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 5 up2                  2.6.18-92.el5
       - CentOS5.2                  2.6.18-92.el5
       - CentOS5.3                  2.6.18-128.el5
       - Fedora Core11           2.6.29                 *
       - OpenSuSE 11             2.6.25.5-1.1        *
       - kernel.org <http://kernel.org/>:                 2.6.29 and 2.6.30


     * Minimal QA for these versions

Systems:
     * x86_64
     * x86
     * ia64
     * ppc64


Main changes from 1.5 beta:
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1. Added support for RHEL5.4 and SLES10 SP3
2. Updated packages:
    libibverbs-1.1.2-0.1.g49ac72c.tar.gz
    libcxgb3-1.2.5.tar.gz
    librdmacm-1.0.9.tar.gz
    dapl-2.0.23.tar.gz
    perftest-1.2.1-0.5.g68d9202.tar.gz
3. Bug fixes


Limitations:
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- mthca does not compile on SLES11 on PPC64
- RDS kernel panic on RHEL 4.x

Changes from OFED-1.4.1
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1 General changes
 o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
 o RDS transport (TCP)
 o Added QIB driver

2 SDP
 o Performance improvements

3 uDAPL
 o New library

4 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).

5 MPI:
   - For now same versions as in OFED 1.4.1
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