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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear OFA Maintainers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sun has contacted me about these bugs and
is asking for priority action to get fixes for them. See the thread below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m sending this email to 3 OFA lists
because Sun having to contact the Alliance this way raises many questions about
how a vendor like Sun or a customer like, say, a Wall St bank gets bugs fixed and
where do we, the OFA, publish this information?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And if we agree that an OFA maintainer is
the right person to fix the bug how does that maintainer learn that and how do
they respond?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you for responding to this email and
to the Sun team using OFED in their products.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bill. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Bill Boas<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Executive Director and Vice Chair<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>OpenFabrics <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>510-375-8840<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><a href="mailto:Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org">Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>www.openfabrics.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM [mailto:Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 25, 2009
12:20 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Bill Boas<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Peter Jones; Brian J. Murrell;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Makia Minich</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: OFED 1.4 for NHM
chips</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Bill,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I found the bug numbers for the Lustre build issues against OFED 1.4.0
that I mentioned yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Is there any way to bump up the priority on these? This is blocking our
ability to deliver our new Vayu (Nehalem+QDR) hardware to our customers, since
Mellanox says they'll only support OFED 1.4 with QDR hardware.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bryon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>From:
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>"Brian J. Murrell" <<a
href="mailto:Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM">Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Date:
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>February 25, 2009 1:06:49 PM MST</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>To: </span></font></b><font
size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Bryon
Neitzel <<a href="mailto:Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM">Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Cc: </span></font></b><font
size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Peter
Jones <<a href="mailto:Peter.A.Jones@Sun.COM">Peter.A.Jones@Sun.COM</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Subject:
</span></font></b><b><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:bold'>Re: OFED 1.4 for NHM chips</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:59 -0700, Bryon Neitzel wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Brian, what is the website where these OFED bugs were
filed? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a href="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522">https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522</a><br>
https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bill Boas tried to find any OFED bugs opened by Sun yesterday,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Yeah. I opened them a number of days ago.<br>
<br>
Not sure if it matters to anyone, but IMHO, 1523 is the correct future<br>
direction and fixing that would implicitly fix 1522. 1523 basically<br>
describes separating the "technology preview" that caused this
breakage<br>
out into it's own independent module so that it does not pollute the<br>
OFED core. As such, it might be resisted as it's a "deeper cut"
type of<br>
fix, but one that removes the sick part rather than trying to continue<br>
to bandage it.<br>
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b.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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