[openfabrics-ewg] OpenFabrics Alliance first release and distribution for Linux

[Bill Boas]

Shawn and members of the EWG,

I apologize that I have not yet done the minutes from the last Board Meeting
at which the creation of the EWG was approved and its responsibilities to
the OpenFabrics Alliance also approved unanimously.

I am now preparing the minutes for distribution this week. The next Board
meeting is Wednesday next week for which Jim Ryan will send out the bridge
and agenda.

The working group was asked to propose to the Board a chair for the Board's
approval - I think you are the proposed person and I hope we will receive
the WG's recommendations for its Chair and its proposed strategy and its
commitments to our member companies and customers before the Board meeting
next week. Then I hope the Board will approve what you present.

I would also encourage you to invite Moiz and Doug to join in that portion
of the Boards discussion so that all members may understand how the results
of the EWG work fit into the Linux distribution schedules and contents.

Also I believe your motion to the Board at the last meeting (which was
approved) was that OpenFabrics would have only ONE release and that that
release would temporarily be in the form of a single distribution and that
they would contain identical code (obviously where the components are the
same). There should therefore not be TWO releases as it seems some are
thinking.

In following threads on the EWG it seems this is still being debated.

Hopefully the EWG proposals to the Board next week will clarify this and
allow the Board to unanimously support the group's on-going work.

If there is any misunderstanding here, everyone please comment. If the
suggestions in this email are off-base please say so.

Bill.

-----Original Message-----
From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Shawn Hansen
(shahanse)
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:40 PM
To: Tziporet Koren
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Sujal Das
Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBED releasesusing
1.0branch

The rest of the team has been relatively silent on this thread the last
few days.

Before we announce anything to the public, I want to make sure the rest
of the team is on board with this description.

I'd like to hear from:

Reini/Silverstorm
Asaf/Voltaire
Matt/Sandia
Bryan/Pathscale

--Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:11 AM
To: Shawn Hansen (shahanse)
Cc: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Sujal Das; Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBED releasesusing
1.0branch

The way I see it is this:

Commonality between IBED and OpenFabrics Release 1.0:

   1. Both share the same user level code. (libraries, management
      utilities, opensm, uDAPL). The code is taken from 1.0 branch in
      both releases.
   2. Using bugzilla for bugs reporting.


Differences between IBED and OpenFabrics Release 1.0:

   1. OpenFabrics 1.0 release contains only the user level code while
      IBED release includes both user level and kernel modules.
   2. IBED release includes kernel modules that are not part of the
      Linux kernel (like iSER and RDS)
   3. IBED includes two MPI packages: OSU MPI and Open MPI.
   4. IBED release is packed in a convenient way for the end user.
   5. IBED supports existing distribution with older kernels (e.g.
      Redhat EL4 up2)


Thus really IBED contains the OpenFabrics release.

Not clear to me if Bryan is planning to prepare a separate OpenFabrics
release, or he to use the common part of IBED. I would recommend to do
it in the way and then the collaboration between both will be clear.

I hope this info is enough for the announcement mail. Note it is very
important to send this message today since we start to see questions
form different developers and I don't want that the answer will come
from engineering.

Tziporet

Shawn Hansen (shahanse) wrote:
> Tzipporet and Bryan,
> Can you briefly write up your technical view on the most controversial
> issue: How IBED is based on/differs from OpenFabrics Release 1.0.
> i.e. Are they separate releases, which release candidate will IBED be 
> based on, how will new changes be incorporated, branching/convergence 
> strategy, what happens with release 1.0 when that comes out, etc.
> Also, which things are open items.
> Everyone else: Do you agree on Tziporet's message below?
> Thanks,
> --Shawn
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> *From:* Tziporet Koren [mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:16 AM
> *To:* Shawn Hansen (shahanse); Sujal Das; bos at pathscale.com
> *Cc:* Michael S. Tsirkin; Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> *Subject:* RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Re: How to generate IBED releases 
> using 1.0branch
>
> Hi,
>
> This is the technical details you can use to send such a mail.
>
> We are working on IBED release in collaboration of OpenFabrics
release.
>
> The motivation behind the release:
>
> - Backport IB support from 2.6.17 to older kernels and existing 
> distributions (Redhat, SuSE)
>
> - Making it easy for people to test and use components that are not 
> yet in mainline kernel
>
> - One package supported by all IB OEMs and vendors
>
> - Please add more ...
>
> The components of the IBDE release are (in brackets is the source
> location):
>
> Kernel modules:
>
> - HCA drivers: mthca, ipath (git tree for 2.6.17)
>
> - core (all modules) (git tree for 2.6.17)
>
> - IPoIB (git tree for 2.6.17)
>
> - SRP (git tree for 2.6.17)
>
> - iSER (svn trunk)
>
> - SDP (svn trunk)
>
> - RDS: from SilverStorm contrib directory (till they move it to the 
> trunk)
>
> User level modules:
>
> - All libraries and utilities from the 1.0 branch
>
> - Opensm from the 1.0 branch
>
> MPI:
>
> - OSU MPI - tarball based on release 0.97 provided by Mellanox
>
> - Open MPI - tarball based on XXX (Jeff to fill) provided by Cisco
>
> In the way this release is done both IBED release and OpenFabrics 
> share the same user space code, and testing done on one of them 
> contribute to both.
>
> Also working on kernel modules that are aimed for Linux kernel will 
> raise the quality level of Infiniband kernel code and will be aligned 
> with Linux releases.
>
> More information that you may want to add is that we will use the same

> bugzilla to report bugs
>
> Tziporet
>

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