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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This is the technical details you can use
to send such a mail.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We are working on IBED release in
collaboration of OpenFabrics release.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The motivation behind the release:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Backport IB support from
2.6.17 to older kernels and existing distributions (Redhat, SuSE)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Making it easy for people
to test and use components that are not yet in mainline kernel</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One package supported by
all IB OEMs and vendors</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please add more …</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The components of the IBDE release are (in
brackets is the source location):</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Kernel modules:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>HCA drivers: mthca, ipath
(git tree for 2.6.17)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>core (all modules) (git tree
for 2.6.17)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>IPoIB (git tree for
2.6.17)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>SRP (git tree for 2.6.17)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>iSER (svn trunk)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>SDP (svn trunk)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>RDS: from SilverStorm
contrib directory (till they move it to the trunk)</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>User level modules:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All libraries and
utilities from the 1.0 branch</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Opensm from the 1.0 branch</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>MPI:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>OSU MPI – tarball
based on release 0.97 provided by Mellanox</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Open MPI – tarball based
on XXX (Jeff to fill) provided by Cisco</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In the way this release is done both IBED
release and OpenFabrics share the same user space code, and testing done on one
of them contribute to both.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also working on kernel modules that are
aimed for Linux kernel will raise the quality level of Infiniband kernel code
and will be aligned with Linux releases.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>More information that you may want to add
is that we will use the same bugzilla to report bugs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tziporet</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Shawn Hansen (shahanse)
[mailto:shahanse@cisco.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
March 29, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>8:33 PM</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Sujal Das; bos@pathscale.com;
Tziporet Koren<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Michael S. Tsirkin;
Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Re:
How to generate IBED releases using 1.0branch</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>As far as
communicating our plans to the openib-general: </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I'd like to request the
development lead(s) to draft a technical summary of a) what components are
going to be included in IBED; b) how it relates to the main OpenFabrics
release; and c) any other information we feel the community would like to see.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I'll then edit and craft
a broader message based on this core material.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>--Shawn</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Sujal Das<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 29, 2006
8:12 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'bos@pathscale.com'; Tziporet
Koren<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Michael S. Tsirkin;
'Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Re:
How to generate IBED releases using 1.0branch</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Communicating to open fabrics general - the proposal
was for the nominated chair, Shawn, to do so.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: Bryan O'Sullivan</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: Tziporet Koren</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>CC: Michael S. Tsirkin;
Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: Wed Mar 29 08:00:45 2006</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How
to generate IBED releases using 1.0 branch</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:54 +0200, Tziporet Koren
wrote:</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> 1. Any module that
is already in the kernel will be taken from</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
the git tree that is targeted for 2.6.17</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
(<a
href="http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git;a=summary"
target="_blank">http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git;a=summary</a>)</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
This include the following: mthca, ipath (if I understand it</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
should be in soon), core (all modules), ipoib, srp</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
2. Kernel modules that are not in Linux kernel will be taken from</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
these directories:</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
iSER, SDP – from the trunk</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
RDS: from SilverStorm contrib directory (till they move it to</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
the trunk)</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sounds good to me.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> 1. All user space
code will be taken from the 1.0 branch. I will</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
send all user space patches that are important for this</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
release. If it’s OK I can also check them in, or ask the</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
maintainers as agreed to do so.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>I think the best thing to do is send patches, then
commit to svn after</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>say a day's delay in case anyone
objects.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> 1. MPI:</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
MVAPICH – tarball is provided by Mellanox</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Why would we not want to build MVAPICH from SVN?</span></font>
</p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Open MPI – tarball is provided by Cisco</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm reluctant to just use a tarball without any
visibility into what's</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>happening in its development.
Can we at least have a pointer to where</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the Open MPI development tree is,
be it SVN or CVS or whatever?</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> I think this module can help us to progress both
OpenFabrics and IBED</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> releases very well and also
contribute for the stability of code that</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> is going to Linux kernel.</span></font>
</p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Yep.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> BTW – when do we go public to OpenFabrics
general list?</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>This should really have happened by now. I'd
like someone to put</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>together a draft announcement,
circulate it here, and then send it to</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>openib-general once it's been
whipped into shape.</span></font> </p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><b</span></font> </p>
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