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color=#0000ff size=2>I have added version 1.3beta2 to the OF
Bugzilla.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P align=left>Scott Weitzenkamp<BR>SQA and Release Manager<BR>Server
Virtualization Business Unit<BR>Cisco Systems<BR></P></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tziporet
Koren<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<BR><B>Cc:</B>
general@lists.openfabrics.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Beta
release is available<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Hi, </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>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
face="Courier New" color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Please report any issues in bugzilla
</FONT><A href="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/"><U><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff size=2>https://bugs.openfabrics.org/</FONT></U></A> </P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>The RC1 release is expected on December
5</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Tziporet & Vlad </FONT></P>
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size=2>========================================================================</FONT>
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<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Release information: </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>--------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>OS support: </FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>Novell: </FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> -
SLES10 </FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> - SLES10
SP1 and up1</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Redhat:
</FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> - Redhat EL4 up4
and up5 </FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> - Redhat
EL5 and up1</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>kernel.org:
</FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> - 2.6.23 and
2.6.24-rc2</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Systems: </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * x86_64 </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * x86 </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * ia64 </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * ppc64*</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Main Changes from OFED 1.3-alpha</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>================================</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Kernel code based on 2.6.24-rc2</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>New packages:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>SRP target</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>qperf test from Qlogic</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>ibsim package</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>uDAPL 2.0 library (1.0 & 2.0 are
coexist)</FONT> </LI></UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>New OSes Support:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>RHEL 5 up1</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>SLES10 SP1 up1</FONT> </LI></UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Compilation issues resolved:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Open MPI compilation on SLES10
SP1</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>ibutils compiles on SLES10 PPC64 (64
bits)</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Apply patches that fix warning of
backport patches</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Prefix is now supported
properly</FONT> </LI></UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>RDS implementation for API version 2 was
updated form 1.2.5 branch</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Fix binary compatibility of libibverbs
caused by XRC implementation</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Uninstall is now working properly</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>ib-bonding update to release 19</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>MPI packages update:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>mvapich-1.0.0-1625.src.rpm</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>mvapich2-1.0.1-1.src.rpm</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>openmpi-1.2.4-1.src.rpm</FONT>
<BR></LI></UL></LI></UL>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Mlx4 driver specific changes:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Enable changing the default of HCA
resource limits with module parameters</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Default number of maximum QPs is now
128K (was 64K)</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Fixing max_cqe's (not adding an extra
cqe)</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Sanity check userspace send queue
sizes</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Several bug fixes in XRC</FONT>
<BR><BR></LI></UL>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Tasks that should be completed for the beta
release:</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>====================================================</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>1. 32-bit libraries to be supported on SLES10 SP1
Update1.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>2. Fix SDP stability
issues</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>3. IPoIB performance
improvements for small messages</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>4.
Fix bugs</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>