<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Sorry I missed it. Doug also missed it. There is the OFED probme again maybe?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Quote:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">>EWG – Working group was asked about the need for OFED outside of IWG/logo<br>>programs and the consensus was a definite yes. The vendors need the very latest<br>>upstream bits, backported for their customers. The distro releases don’t include<br>>latest upstream components, tend to be several releases back from latest<br>><a href="http://kernel.org">kernel.org</a>. EWG is moving to <a href="http://kernel.org">kernel.org</a> 5.3 RC3 for next OFED release,<br>>trending to Q4 release. Huawei RoCE drivers will be added to this new<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">All development activities need to be upstream and not in OFED. The RDMA kernel subsystem developers will not like this approach and such an approach will delay upstream acceptance. As far as I know the agreement on OFED is that it is for experimental material that is not upstream ready.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Backports are possible via the distro releases. If something is not up to date then the distro can backport on request. This has worked fine for Jump Trading with Redhat for years.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The OFED release process does not have the Q&A coverage of upstream and neither the quality of developers that is available at a distro level. Please follow the upstream release process and work with the distributions for any backports. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:38 PM Aguilar, Michael J. via Ofa_boardplus <<a href="mailto:ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org">ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">We had a short meeting today with a light agenda.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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