<html><body><p><tt><font size="2">Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote on 05/25/2018 16:57:25:<br><br>> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> To: Bernard Metzler <BMT@zurich.ibm.com></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Cc: "Davis, Arlin R" <arlin.r.davis@intel.com>, <br>> "ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org, " <br>> <ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org>, "Coulter, Susan K" <skc@lanl.gov></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Date: 05/25/2018 16:57</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> <br>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 03:04:43PM +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:<br>> <br>> > > It would be useful to know if IBM is still using DAPL.<br>> > ><br>> > > Bernard can you find out?<br>> > ><br>> > So, yes, DB2 PureScale still uses it, and currently relies on it. So<br>> > IBM will find a solution to live without it, when uDAPL goes<br>> > away.<br>> <br>> Okay, are they aware that the current maintainers are likely to<br>> completely stop maintaining it in a year or two? And they should be<br>> thinking about their next steps, and/or if the wish to become the<br>> maintainers for it?<br>> </font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">There is no plan for having IBM maintaining it.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">Currently IBM takes RDMA support from SLES and RHEL. So the</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">question is when those distros will stop supporting it (that is,</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">when they will remove it). Or if the distros support it even longer.</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">IBM will talk to SLES and RHEL to find that out.</font></tt><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">Thanks for pointing at that!</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">Bernard.</font></tt><BR>
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