[openib-general] OpenIB SWG Face to Face 9/9 Meeting

[Grant Grundler]

Hal,
thanks for posting the meeting notes.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:31:05PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> What about OSDL ? Who can supply IB hardware for them ? Some number of
> HCAs and a switch would be needed. They also may have a budget for this.

I've already have high level mgt agreement to fund this.
I have temporary funding issues right now but it's not the primary problem.
Tim Witham (OSDL) at the IB BOF (OLS) was clear he couldn't host
OpenIB.org work until the "only promoters" SVN policy is changed.
Ie folks who've contributed money to OpenIB get write access to SVN.
Until Tim says he's happy, I don't see any point in ordering HW.

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> We will need to make things easier for kernel developers. Should there
> be a bkbits tree?

No. Just post the recipe to include openib.org SVN in any given source tree.
Roland already sent me the recipe to include his code and it looks
trivial (sorry - I'm still fighting other fires and haven't actually
tried it yet...over a week ago *sigh*).

> There needs to be a way to easily pull IB and add to
> kernel including building outside the kernel.

Right now, "build outside the kernel" is irrelevant given dependencies
on 2.6.8 kernels. Or do I have that wrong?

> openib.org website is confusing. The downloads are no longer applicable.
> There is nothing that indicates what everything is (both gen1 and gen2).
> Matt is working on improving this.

Yes - that would be good.

thanks again,
grant