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

[Marcus Eder]

Tziporet,
eHCA supports the ppc64 system.
Regarding the OSes: We are working on backports for 2.6.9, 2.6.12, 2.6.17, 
2.6.18. Kernel inclusion is planned thru Roland for 2.6.19.

Marcus

openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org wrote on 29.08.2006 16:14:03:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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