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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OFED 1.3 Beta release is available on</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please report any issues in bugzilla </FONT><A HREF="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">https://bugs.openfabrics.org/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The RC1 release is expected on December 5</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tziporet & Vlad </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">========================================================================</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Release information: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">--------------------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OS support: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Novell: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - SLES10 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - SLES10 SP1 and up1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Redhat: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Redhat EL5 and up1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">kernel.org: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc2</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Systems: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * x86_64 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * x86 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * ia64 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * ppc64*</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Main Changes from OFED 1.3-alpha</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Kernel code based on 2.6.24-rc2</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">New packages:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">SRP target</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">qperf test from Qlogic</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ibsim package</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">uDAPL 2.0 library (1.0 & 2.0 are coexist)</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">New OSes Support:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RHEL 5 up1</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">SLES10 SP1 up1</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Compilation issues resolved:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Open MPI compilation on SLES10 SP1</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ibutils compiles on SLES10 PPC64 (64 bits)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Prefix is now supported properly</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RDS implementation for API version 2 was updated form 1.2.5 branch</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix binary compatibility of libibverbs caused by XRC implementation</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Uninstall is now working properly</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ib-bonding update to release 19</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">MPI packages update:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mvapich-1.0.0-1625.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mvapich2-1.0.1-1.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">openmpi-1.2.4-1.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Mlx4 driver specific changes:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Enable changing the default of HCA resource limits with module parameters</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Default number of maximum QPs is now 128K (was 64K)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fixing max_cqe's (not adding an extra cqe)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Sanity check userspace send queue sizes</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Several bug fixes in XRC</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tasks that should be completed for the beta release:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">====================================================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1. 32-bit libraries to be supported on SLES10 SP1 Update1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2. Fix SDP stability issues</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">3. IPoIB performance improvements for small messages</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">4. Fix bugs</FONT>
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