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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>Tzipporet and Bryan,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>Can you briefly write up your technical view on the
most controversial issue: How IBED is based on/differs from OpenFabrics Release
1.0.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>i.e. Are they separate releases, which release
candidate will IBED be based on, how will new changes be incorporated,
branching/convergence strategy, what happens with release 1.0 when that comes
out, etc. Also, which things are open items.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>Everyone else: Do you agree on Tziporet's message
below?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=558553222-31032006>--Shawn</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Tziporet Koren
[mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:16
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Shawn Hansen (shahanse); Sujal Das;
bos@pathscale.com<BR><B>Cc:</B> Michael S. Tsirkin;
Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to
generate IBED releases using 1.0branch<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the technical
details you can use to send such a mail.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are working on IBED
release in collaboration of OpenFabrics release.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The motivation behind
the release:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One
package supported by all IB OEMs and vendors</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please add
more …</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The components of the
IBDE release are (in brackets is the source location):</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kernel
modules:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HCA
drivers: mthca, ipath (git tree for 2.6.17)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">core (all
modules) (git tree for 2.6.17)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IPoIB (git
tree for 2.6.17)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SRP (git
tree for 2.6.17)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">iSER (svn
trunk)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SDP (svn
trunk)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">RDS: from
SilverStorm contrib directory (till they move it to the
trunk)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">User level
modules:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All
libraries and utilities from the 1.0 branch</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Opensm
from the 1.0 branch</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MPI:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">OSU MPI –
tarball based on release 0.97 provided by Mellanox</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Open MPI –
tarball based on XXX (Jeff to fill) provided by Cisco</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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 face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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 face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More information that
you may want to add is that we will use the same bugzilla to report
bugs</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tziporet</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Wednesday, March 29,
2006</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">8:33
PM</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As far as
communicating our plans to the openib-general: </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I'll then
edit and craft a broader message based on this core
material.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">--Shawn</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
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face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Communicating to open fabrics general - the proposal was
for the nominated chair, Shawn, to do so.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From: Bryan O'Sullivan</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To: Tziporet Koren</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CC: Michael S. Tsirkin;
Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent: Wed Mar 29 08:00:45 2006</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to
generate IBED releases using 1.0 branch</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:54 +0200, Tziporet Koren
wrote:</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 1. Any module that is
already in the kernel will be taken from</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the
git tree that is targeted for 2.6.17</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> (<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: 10pt">>
This include the following: mthca, ipath (if I understand it</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
should be in soon), core (all modules), ipoib, srp</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 2.
Kernel modules that are not in Linux kernel will be taken from</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
these directories:</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
iSER, SDP – from the trunk</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
RDS: from SilverStorm contrib directory (till they move it to</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the
trunk)</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sounds good to me.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 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: 10pt">>
send all user space patches that are important for this</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
release. If it’s OK I can also check them in, or ask the</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
maintainers as agreed to do so.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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: 10pt">say a day's delay in case anyone objects.</SPAN></FONT>
</P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 1. MPI:</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
MVAPICH – tarball is provided by Mellanox</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Why would we not want to build MVAPICH from
SVN?</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">>
Open MPI – tarball is provided by Cisco</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I'm reluctant to just use a tarball without any
visibility into what's</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">happening in its development. Can we at least have
a pointer to where</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the Open MPI development tree is, be it SVN or CVS or
whatever?</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> I think this module can help us to progress both
OpenFabrics and IBED</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> releases very well and also contribute for the
stability of code that</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> is going to Linux kernel.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Yep.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> BTW – when do we go public to OpenFabrics general
list?</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This should really have happened by now. I'd like
someone to put</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">together a draft announcement, circulate it here, and
then send it to</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">openib-general once it's been whipped into
shape.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
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