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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.2.c-9 is available now on the OFA server under: </FONT><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/connectx/release/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/connectx/release/</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Note: this release was tested with FW 2.1.000 that will soon be available on Mellanox web site for download.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Supported Platforms and Operating Systems</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">=================================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">o CPU architectures:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - x86_64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - x86</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - ppc64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - ia64</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">o Linux Operating Systems:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - RedHat EL4 up3: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - kernel.org: 2.6.20.x</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp (partially tested)<B></B></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Main changes from OFED 1.2.c-8:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">=========================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Kernel oops in IPoIB on restart of the driver.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. IPoIB CM is now the default.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. MPI with SRQ is supported.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Itanium is now supported.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mlx4 Fixed Bugs and Enhancements</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">===========================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Added support for PCI-Ex gen2 devices; device IDs: 26418 and 26428.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Query QP and query SRQ are now supported.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Internal error flow was added.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Number of QPs that can be attached to the same multicast group was increased to 56.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- SRQ is now supported.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Fork is now supported.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ConnectX specific known issues and limitations</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">===================================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- The following commands and/or features are not supported:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o Resize CQ</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o FMRs</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o APM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> o SQD</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- ibstat does not present all entries. Use ibv_devinfo instead.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- To load the driver on machines with 64KB default page size UAR bar must be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> enlarged. 64KB page size is the default of PPC with RHEL5 and Itanium with</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 64KB page size enabled.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Perform the following three steps:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. Add the following line in the firmware configuration (INI) file under the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> [HCA] section:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> log2_uar_bar_megabytes = 5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Burn a modified firmware image with the changed INI file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. Reboot the system</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Tziporet Koren</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Software Director</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mellanox Technologies</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailto: </FONT><A HREF="mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tziporet@mellanox.co.il</FONT></U></A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380</FONT>
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