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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hi Kevin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I have spoken to the maintainer of the OFED Build and he has confirmed that OFED 4.8 and later does contain the drivers needed for the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>ConnectX-4 devices. The rdma-core includes user space drivers (libmlx4/5/...) and verbs library.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>He will update the release notes to make it clear that ConnectX-4 devices are supported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Rupert</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Kevin Abbey [<a href="mailto:kevina@oarc.rutgers.edu">mailto:kevina@oarc.rutgers.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> RSD@SFI <<a href="mailto:rsdance@soft-forge.com">rsdance@soft-forge.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:users@lists.openfabrics.org">users@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Users] ofed -- inclusion in distributions, Redhat, Centos<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><pre><span style='color:black'>Hi Rupert and others on the list,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>We have new EDR adapters/switches, ConnectX-4. I don't see them listed in the release notes. Is this correct?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>In Fedora 26, the related rpm, libmlx5 release include ConnectX-4 in the package info. How is that possible if the source is OFED? Is Fedora using the devel/master source rather than the released OFED versions?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>I'm not following what I have observed.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>Any notes on this would be useful.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='word-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>----------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>This release supports IB HCAs by IBM, Intel and Mellanox Technologies, iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel and RoCE adapters by Emulex, IBM and Mellanox.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>InfiniBand Adapters<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> o IBM HCAs:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> o Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (Rev 2.9.1000)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - ConnectX-2 (Rev 2.9.1200 and above)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported):<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - ConnectX-3 (Rev 2.33.5100 and above)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - ConnectX-3 Pro (Rev 2.33.5100 and above)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported):<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> - Connect-IB (Rev 10.10.5054 and above)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> For official firmware versions please see:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'> </span><a href="http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download">http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> RSD@SFI <</span><a href="mailto:rsdance@soft-forge.com">rsdance@soft-forge.com</a><span style='color:black'>><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 16, 2017 6:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> Kevin Abbey; </span><a href="mailto:users@lists.openfabrics.org">users@lists.openfabrics.org</a><span style='color:black'><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Users] ofed -- inclusion in distributions, Redhat, Centos</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Hi Kevin,<br><br>The OFED_release_notes.txt in each GA version of OFED provide the information you request about the supported hardware and OS.<br><br>Here is the path for OFED 4.8 GA: OFED-4.8.tgz\OFED-4.8.tar\OFED-4.8\docs\<br><br>The release notes are also available on the OFA site: </span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openfabrics.org%2Fdownloads%2FOFED%2Frelease_notes%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ckevina%40oarc.rutgers.edu%7Cc1b697d4509e4dff3b8f08d4e495bdb4%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636384779175772332&sdata=%2BsGnQD3cB84f4z10Gr5Q3t47u1%2B0FE6nNGAE8goCudc%3D&reserved=0" id=LPlnk395673><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openfabrics.org%2Fdownloads%2FOFED%2Frelease_notes%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ckevina%40oarc.rutgers.edu%7Cc1b697d4509e4dff3b8f08d4e495bdb4%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636384779175772332&sdata=%2BsGnQD3cB84f4z10Gr5Q3t47u1%2B0FE6nNGAE8goCudc%3D&reserved=0</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> <br><br>Thanks<br><br>Rupert<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Users [</span><a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>mailto:users-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>] On Behalf Of Kevin Abbey<br>Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 7:31 PM<br>To: </span><a href="mailto:users@lists.openfabrics.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>users@lists.openfabrics.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br>Subject: [Users] ofed -- inclusion in distributions, Redhat, Centos<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I'm looking for the hardware/software/kernel/fw version compatibility matrix/notes regarding the use of OFED in Redhat and Centos as well as other distros. I need to see what hardware is supported in a specific <br>OFED version, thus what is supported by the RH, Centos, etc versions. <br>I'd also like to be sure that the hardware fw meets the required level by the OFED version. Mellanox provides this information on their website and I was under the impression that similar information would be provided with openfabrics, RH and Centos.<br><br>Is any of the above information described somewhere or do we use the Mellanox site for reference?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Kevin<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:Users@lists.openfabrics.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Users@lists.openfabrics.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br></span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.openfabrics.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fusers&data=02%7C01%7Ckevina%40oarc.rutgers.edu%7Cc1b697d4509e4dff3b8f08d4e495bdb4%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636384779175772332&sdata=LgCQ2pGRiSh6%2FQUBgv3zkFsnie7ybZnLMDDByDHKs8Y%3D&reserved=0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.openfabrics.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fusers&data=02%7C01%7Ckevina%40oarc.rutgers.edu%7Cc1b697d4509e4dff3b8f08d4e495bdb4%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636384779175772332&sdata=LgCQ2pGRiSh6%2FQUBgv3zkFsnie7ybZnLMDDByDHKs8Y%3D&reserved=0</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>