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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.2-RC1 is available on </FONT><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">File:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED-1.2-rc1.tgz</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BUILD_ID contains info on all packages sources location.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please report any issues in bugzilla </FONT><A HREF="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">https://bugs.openfabrics.org/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RC2 due date is 17-April</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet & Vlad</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">====================================================================================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Release information:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OS support:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Novell:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - SLES 9.0 SP3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - SLES10 (and SP1 beta2 partially tested)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Redhat:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - Redhat EL4 up3 and up4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - Redhat EL5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">kernel.org:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - 2.6.20</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - 2.6.19</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Note: Fedora C6 and SuSE Pro 10 are not part of the official list.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Systems:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * x86_64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * x86</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * ia64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> * ppc64</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Main changes from OFED-1.1-alpha:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. The default prefix changed from /usr/local/ofed to /usr and this implied the following changes too:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - uninstall.sh script renamed and replaced: <prefix>/sbin/ofed_uninstall.sh</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - BUILD_ID is part of <prefix>/bin/ofed_info script</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Fixed 57 bugs (see attachment for all bugs fixed)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Major limitations and known issues:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bug_id bug_severity assigned_to short_short_desc</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">513 critical bos@pathscale.com error while installing ipath driver</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">420 critical monil@voltaire.com PKey table reordering caused by SM failover stops ipoib traffic</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">431 critical mst@mellanox.co.il IPoIB CM locks up server on SLES10/RHEL4 ppc64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">465 critical mst@mellanox.co.il IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours of failovers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">436 major arlin.r.davis@intel.com Intel MPI and HP MPI DDR bandwidth dropped after OFED 1.2 alpha</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">406 major eitan@mellanox.co.il "double free" abort in ibdaigui</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">503 major halr@voltaire.com Linux distributions Interoperability of IPoIB IPv6 does not work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">459 major monis@voltaire.com support ib-bonding on RHEL4U4/RHEL5, put kernel name in RPM name, and clean up better</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">484 major mst@dev.mellanox.co.il mstflint -d mthca0 fails on ppc64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">506 major mst@mellanox.co.il IPoIB IPv4 multicast throughput is poor</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">508 major mst@mellanox.co.il IPoIB CM multicast is hogging interrupts</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">438 major rolandd@cisco.com OFED SRP does not work with DDN IB storage large LUNs</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">464 major rolandd@cisco.com release libibverbs-1.1 final before OFED 1.2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">509 major tziporet@mellanox.co.il turn on IPoIB CM by default</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">499 major vlad@mellanox.co.il module compiled over ofed won't load due to symbol version mismatch</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">See bugzilla for all open issues.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tasks that should be completed for RC2:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. Support SLES10 SP1 RC1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Stabilize IPoIB CM on PPC and with HA.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. Fix all blocker, critical and major bugs</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Note: Vlad, Michael and myself are on vacation now and will return to work only Tuesday next week. We will not have an email access.</FONT></P>
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