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<br><font size=2><tt>rdma-developers-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote
on 07/29/2005 03:52:56 PM:<br>
<br>
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:59:03 -0400 (EDT)<br>
> James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > > Venkat wrote,<br>
> > >> If anyone attended any one of the summits (netconf or
kernel) and<br>
> > >> would be great if they can shed some light on this discussion.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Roland attended the kernel summit and he was<br>
> > > also at the InfiniBand BOF where we discussed<br>
> > > the possibility of modifying the<br>
> > > IB verbs to also support iWarp as probably the right way
to<br>
> > > go. Not sure if this was discussed at the kernel summit
or not,<br>
> > > but perhaps Roland can provide some insight on that question.<br>
> > <br>
> > The subject came up at the kernel summit when Jamal Hadi Salim
<br>
> > reported on the presentations at Netconf, in particular Stephen
<br>
> > Hemminger's, see http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2005.html).<br>
> > <br>
> > It was noted that iWARP vendors are working with the OpenIB community
<br>
> > on a common interface. The consensus was that this is the right
<br>
> > direction.<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> The consensus was more of wait and see what comes up. My discussion<br>
> at netconf was more of an informative session to get the participants
to<br>
> know that activity is going on and some code may be coming. It was
all<br>
> of 5 minutes at the end of a busy day, so it didn't count for much.<br>
><br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Thanks Stephen for clarifying this. </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Yes, the basic code base in OpenRDMA is currently
available</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>for people to start hacking. My hope is that within
next few months</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>we'll also have some rnic driver available so that
the basic set of</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>enablement layers within both user and kernel space
can be experimented</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>with.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Thanks</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Venkat</tt></font>