[ewg] OFED 1.2 May 15 meeting summary on release status

[Tziporet Koren]

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On May 15, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Tziporet Koren wrote:
>
>> 607criticaljsquyres at cisco.comremove the hack to save the port number 
>> in the ia hca_address - Jeff to decide. Nice to have for iWARP since 
>> they will use OMPI from the trunk in any case.
>
> The change listed in 607 is not the only change that is required for 
> OMPI's udapl support to work on OFED.  Getting the changes into OMPI 
> and rolling another community release (v1.2.3) will take a little time 
> (v1.2.2 is due out today/tomorrow and doesn't have these changes).
>
> Having an OFED-specific release of OMPI with the patches required to 
> make udapl work is an alternative way to make the OFED 1.2 timetable, 
> but the OFED community was previously against this kind of release.  
> Do the iWARP vendors have an opinion here?
>

Actually this was the reason why its not clear if we need this fix. In 
the meeting Steve said that it will take some time will OMPI will work 
with iWRAP.
Thus I vote for taking v1.2.2 and not doing any special OMPI release for 
OFED.

Tziporet