[ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

I have added a 1.2beta1 version in bugzilla.


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	From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
	Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:13 AM
	To: EWG
	Cc: OPENIB
	Subject: [ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release
	
	
	Hi,
	
	OFED 1.2-beta1 is available on
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/
	File:OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz
<http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz>  
	BUILD_ID contains info on all packages sources location.
	
	Please report any issues in bugzilla
https://bugs.openfabrics.org/
	
	Tziporet & Vlad
	
	OS support:
	Novell:
	    - SLES 9.0 SP3
	    - SLES10
	Redhat:
	    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up3
	    - Redhat EL5 beta2 (only partially tested)
	kernel.org:
	    - 2.6.20
	    - 2.6.19
	
	Note: Fedora C6 and SuSE Pro 10 are not part of the official
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-alpha:
	

	1.	Added packages: 

		1.	madeye utility 
		2.	DAPL utils (contains dapl test) 
		3.	Support for MPI selector 
		4.	RDS tools package 

	2.	RDS to support SLES10 and RHEL up3 and up4, and tested
with crload 
	3.	ipath driver is now available and libipathverbs  is
working 
	4.	Fixed 82 bugs (see attachment for all bugs fixed)
		

	Limitations and known issues:
	Major issues:
	
bug_id	 bug_severity	 op_sys	 assigned_to	 short_short_desc	
400	 blocker	 RHEL 4	 sean.hefty at intel.com	 OFED 1.2 IPoIB
HA/CM/multicast problems	
456	 critical	 SLES 10	 arlin.r.davis at intel.com
dapltest won't compile on SLES10 IA64	
419	 critical	 SLES 10	 mee at pathscale.com	 OFED
1.2 does not build ipath components on SLES10/PPC64	
420	 critical	 All	 monil at voltaire.com	 PKey table
reordering caused by SM failover stops ipoib traffic	
402	 critical	 Other	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 On stress
kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!	
431	 critical	 SLES 10	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 IPoIB
CM locks up server on SLES10/RHEL4 ppc64	
436	 major	 RHEL 4	 arlin.r.davis at intel.com	 Intel MPI and
HP MPI DDR bandwidth dropped after OFED 1.2 alpha	
351	 major	 SLES 10	 bugzilla at openib.org	 Routing table
problem in SLES10 when using port #2	
449	 major	 All	 bugzilla at openib.org	 DMA vs CQ race on IA64
Altix platform	
450	 major	 RHEL 4	 bugzilla at openib.org	 IPoIB BW drop (measured
with iperf) with mtu=1500 on x86 RH4UP3	
406	 major	 RHEL 4	 eitan at mellanox.co.il	 "double free" abort in
ibdaigui	
418	 major	 RHEL 4	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 IPoIB CM causes large
message IPv4 multicast to fail	
445	 major	 SLES 10	 pasha at mellanox.co.il	 MVAPICH won't
compile on ppc64	
438	 major	 All	 rolandd at cisco.com	 OFED SRP does not work
with DDN IB storage	

	See bugzilla for all issues open.
	
	
	Tasks that should be completed for RC1:
	

	1.	Support RHEL5
		
	2.	PPC better support (several PPC specific bugs are still
open)
		
	3.	Bonding support by IPOIB 
	4.	Fix all blocker, critical and major bugs 

	RC1 due date is 29-March
	
	
	

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