[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary
> 
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 00:10 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Quoting Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>:
> > >
> > > Basically, I wonder if the usefulness of a primarily source OFED
> > > distribution is shrinking?
> > 
> > My laptop does not run either RHEL or SLES so I don't think so :).
> > 
> > > Maybe expanding the program to provide
> > > RH/SuSE compatible source and binary upgrade RPMs is better?
> > 
> > Can't distributions do that? Why not?
> 
> Although not weekly or similarly frequent, RHEL4 and RHEL5 will both get
> updates to the OFED sources at each scheduled update.  We won't be
> freezing our OFED support with the initial supported release.

That's great.
BTW, something that's I'd like to learn how to do, is a way to figure out what
code is RHEL infiniband support based on.

For example, I gather RHEL5 basically has OFED 1.1, right?
Does this include patches from the support page?

Thanks,
	MST

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MST