[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc3 is ready

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

RC3 includes a bunch of binary RPMS, please remove for RC4.  Look at the
size of the RC3 tarball vs previous ones:

$ ls -s | more
total 290848
 46512 OFED-1.1-rc1.tgz
     0 OFED-1.1-rc1.tgz.md5sum
 47048 OFED-1.1-rc2.tgz
     0 OFED-1.1-rc2.tgz.md5sum
197288 OFED-1.1-rc3.tgz
     0 OFED-1.1-rc3.tgz.md5sum

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of 
> Tziporet Koren
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:24 AM
> To: EWG
> Cc: OPENIB
> Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc3 is ready
> 
> Hi,
> 
> OFED 1.1-RC3 is available on 
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/ofed/releases/
> File: OFED-1.1-rc3.tgz
> Please report any issues in bugzilla http://openib.org/bugzilla/
> 
> Schedule reminder:
> ==================
> Next milestones:
> RC4 is planned for 7-Sep. It should include critical bug fixes only.
> Final release will be on 11 or 12 Sep.
> 
> Owners - please update release notes for RC4.
> 
> Tziporet & Vlad
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> 
> Release details:
> ================
> Build_id:
> OFED-1.1-rc3
> 
> openib-1.1 (REV=9203)
> # User space
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/src/userspace
> Git:
> ref: refs/heads/ofed_1_1
> commit 338e942a4ae10d62f2632e6292f85bb1b15d154c
> 
> # MPI
> mpi_osu-0.9.7-mlx2.2.0.tgz
> openmpi-1.1.1-1.src.rpm
> mpitests-2.0-0.src.rpm
> 
> 
> OS support:
> ===========
> Novell:
>     - SLES 9.0 SP3
>     - SLES10
> 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
> 
> Main changes from OFED-1.1-rc2:
> ===============================
> 1. Added ehca (IBM) driver. This driver can be compiled on 
> kernel 2.6.18 
> only
> 3. Open MPI version update to openmpi-1.1.1-1
> 4. Core: Huge pages registration is supported
> 5. IPoIB high availability script supports multicast groups
> 6. RHEL4 up4 is now supported
> 7. SDP: fixed connection refused problem; get peer name working
> 8. libsdp: several bug fixes
> 
> Limitations and known issues:
> =============================
> 1. SDP: For Mellanox Sinai HCAs one must use latest FW 
> version (1.1.000).
> 2. SDP: Scalability issue when many connections are opened
> 3. SDP: If RTU packet is lost Accept call blocks even if 
> client connected.
> 4. ipath driver is not supported on SLES9 SP3
> 5. Compilation on kernel 2.6.18-rc5 is failing - to be fixed in RC4
>  
> 
> Missing features that should be completed for RC4:
> ==================================================
> None
> 
> 
> 
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