[ewg] OFED October 29 meeting summary on OFED 1.3 beta readiness

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED October 29 meeting summary on OFED 1.3 beta readiness:

1. Beta release schedule:

    * The release is planed for next Monday Nov-5
    * For this the rebase for 2.6.24-rc1 must be completed tomorrow
    * I will send status update on Thursday


2. Beta tasks status:

      1. Fix compilation problems on PPC with 32 bits - Vlad & Oren
      (Mellanox) - on work
      2. Rebase kernel code on 2.6.24 rc1 (depending it's availability) 
      - on work (please read mail from Vlad with instructions)
      3. SPEC files should be part of each user space package - each
      owner should take the spec file
      4. Multiple uDAPL libs (1.0 & 2.0) - Vlad and Arlin (Intel)
      5. Fix all compilation and install issues - All


      Done tasks:
          o Add qperf test from Qlogic - Johann (Qlogic)
          o Support RHEL 5 up1 - Woody & Vlad
          o Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches - Vlad
            (Mellanox) (one patch was not applied since we got no answer
            regarding it)
          o New MVAPICH package - Pasha & DK (OSU)
          o Complete RDS work - Vlad (Mellanox)
          o Integrate all SDP features - Jim (Mellanox)
          o nes - updated backport patches - Glenn (NetEffect)


3. Bugs that should be with high priority for the beta are all 
compilation and install issues.
    I will publish the specific list of bugs
    Note: the bug severity in bugzilla are aimed to the GA release