[openib-general] Re: [Rdma-developers]Meeting(07/22) summary:OpenRDMA community development discussion

[Steve Wise]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:26 PM
> To: Fab Tillier
> Cc: Venkata Jagana; openib-general at openib.org; Tom Duffy; 
> rdma-developers at lists.sourceforge.net; Christoph Hellwig
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: 
> [Rdma-developers]Meeting(07/22) summary:OpenRDMA community 
> development discussion
> 
> Fab Tillier wrote:
> > Just for clarity, when you say verbs you exclude connection
> > establishment/management, right?
> 
> I refer to verbs as only those calls provided by the device 
> driver, so I'm 
> excluding CM, SA query, MAD services, etc.  For IB, it does 
> include the 
> creation of the special QPs.
> 
> > Here's my take from the discussions so far:
> > - RNICs can probably be made to work under the IB verbs 
> (with changes of
> > course).
> 
> I would go further and state that the RNIC community seems 
> reluctant to do so.
> 

This isn't true.  The RNIC community is actively trying to do this now.
Stay tuned for patches...

Steve.