[openfabrics-ewg] Welcoming IBM to EWG (Was: : ehca is not in OFED 1.1-rc1 anymore)

[Tziporet Cohen]

Marcus Eder wrote:
>
> Hi Tziporet,
> how does the OFED supported Sytem-HW&OS matrix look like today (for 
> example: HW: i686, ppc, ..., OS: SLES9, SLES10, RH4.4 ...)? So far our 
> main testing was done with a special GEN2 SLES9 SP3 build on POWER5 
> IBM HW.
>
See below for HW & OS matrix
Please send me the systems ehca supports so we can add it to the install 
checks.

OS support:
===========
Novell:
         - SLES 9.0 SP3
         - SLES10 (official release)
Redhat:
         - Redhat EL4 up3
         - Redhat EL4 up4
kernel.org:
         - Kernel 2.6.17

Note: Redhat EL4 up2, Fedora C4 and SuSE Pro 10 were dropped from the list.
We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile and
loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.

Systems:
========
x86_64  x86    ia64    ppc64
> Also is there a writeup how the EWG is organized internally (regular 
> meetings, how testing is done, expected quality of a release, etc.)?
>
Most updates and decisions are done in the mailing list. Please register 
to openfabrics-ewg at openib.org (at http://openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo)
We have a slot for a meeting on Monday 9am PST, but we rarely use it. We 
use it usually in beginning of a release to agree upon release features, 
and later only if there are open issues that need further discussions.

Regarding testing - each company performs its own QA process and send 
status update to the ewg list.
Bugs are filled in bugzilla: http://openib.org/bugzilla/

The way the OFED is build is this:

user-space: OFED is tracking the OpenFabrics svn tree, and we open a 
branch for each release. 1.1 release is under: 
https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/src/

Kernel:
git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband  ofed_1_1

The ofed_1_1 tree is a merge from Roland tree for 2.6.18 and sources 
that we need to take from SVN (e.g uCMA). In addition of course this 
tree includes the patches & scripts for OFED.

The way we support older kernel versions is by providing patches to 
them. Patches are applied by the configure script at build time.
Please send us the backport patches for each kernel you want ehca to 
support, and we will add them to the git tree.
The kernel versions we support are: 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, suse10_0_u,  
2.6.15,  2.6.16_sles10,  2.6.5-7.244, 2.6.9_U3, 2.6.11_FC4, 2.6.14, 
2.6.16, 2.6.17, 2.6.9