[openfabrics-ewg] Where do contribute new stuff to OFED scripts?

[Matt Leininger]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 23:08 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Matt Leininger <mlleinin at hpcn.ca.sandia.gov>:
> > Subject: Re: Where do contribute new stuff to OFED scripts?
> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 11:47 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 11:37, Matt Leininger wrote:
> > > [snip...]
> > > 
> > > > We need to get these issues worked out before going
> > > > into the OFED release for SC06.  
> > > 
> > > Is there another OFED release to be geared at SC06 ? If so, that would
> > > be excellent.
> > > 
> >   It was my understanding that an OFED-1.1.1 or OFED-1.2 release would
> > be targeted for SC06.  
> 
> What does it mean for OFED to target SC06?

  I just meant we would have an OFED release before SC06 that could be
used for OFED demos.
> 
> >  Does anyone know the current state of iWarp support in the mainline
> > development branch (of OpenFabrics, not OFED)?  I'm sure some folks
> > would like to see an OFED-2.0 release with iWarp support for SC06.  
> > 
> >   Thanks,
> > 
> > 	- Matt
> 
> It looks like iWarp support will be in upstream kernels from 2.6.19.  So if you
> want iWarp in OFED, a reasonable time to start integrating and testing this
> support will be when 2.6.19 reaches an -rc stage, about 1-1.5 month from now,
> and a reasonable target for release would be close to 2.6.19 release date, 2-3
> months from now.

  This seems very reasonable to me.
> 
> So I don't think OFED release with iWarp before November '06 is realistic,
> but there might be an RC if you want to demo it at SC06.

  Having an OFED (maybe 2.0?) RC with iWarp before Nov. would be good.
We can then get folks to debug it in order to get all the OFED iWarp
demos working.

  Thanks,

	- Matt

> 
> HTH
>