[ewg] OFED 1.4 alpha release is ready

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi, 

OFED 1.4 alpha release is available on 
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4/OFED-1.4-alpha1.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for
OFED 1.4

The beta release is expected on August 7 2008

Tziporet & Vlad 


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Release information: 
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Linux Operating Systems:
        - RedHat EL4 up5:       2.6.9-55.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL4 up6:       2.6.9-67.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL5:           2.6.18-8.el5
        - RedHat EL5 up1:       2.6.18-53.el5
        - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5
        - Fedora C9:            2.6.25-14.fc9       *
        - SLES10:               2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
        - SLES10 SP1:           2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
        - SLES10 SP1 up1:       2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
        - SLES10 SP2:           2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
        - OpenSuSE 10.3:        2.6.22.5-31         *
        - kernel.org:           2.6.26

      * OSes that are partially tested 

Systems: 
	* x86_64 
	* x86 
	* ia64 
	* ppc64 


Main Changes from OFED 1.3
========================== 
    1. General changes
        o Kernel code based on 2.6.26 (will be 2.6.27)
        o Added iSER target package
        o Added NFS-RDMA support (for 2.6.26 only for now)
    2. IPoIB
        o LRO support - when we move to 2.6.27
    3. SDP
        o Bug fixes in the state machine and close flow
    4. qlgc_vnic
        o Support for hotswap of EVIC and dynamic update of existing
connections
          with the addition of QLogic dynamic update daemon.
        o Performance improvements in handling of Ethernet
broadcast/multicast
          traffic.
    5. RDS (for now only kernel 2.6.26 is working)
        o GA of RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3
        o iWARP support
    6. uDAPL
        o Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with
Windows
        o Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only
        o v1 library package has been renamed to compat-dapl-1.2.8-1
    7. Management
        o OpenSM
          - APM - disjoint paths
          - Path balancing for LMC + console diagnostics
          - OpenSM configuration unification
          - MGID to MLID mapping for IPv6 SNM
          - Routing engines chain
          - IBA 1.2.1 additions
          - Failover/Handover improvements
        o ibutils:
          - Congestion Control
          - Report created in CSV format
        o Diagnostic tools:
          - ibnetdiscover library - to accelerate another tools
    8. Low level drivers:
        o mlx4: Enable Virtual Protocol Interconnect - Eth and IB on the
same device
          

Tasks that should be completed for the beta: 
============================================
1. Move to kernel base 2.6.27-rc1 with the features:
   - New verbs to support BMME (Fast memory thru send queue, Local
invalidate send work requests,
     Read with invalidate.
   - IPoIB LRO
2. RDS to work on distro OSes
3. NFS-RDMA to work on distro OSes
4. New MPI versions: MVAPICH 1.1, OpenMPI 1.3, MVAPICH2 1.2
5. OSM: Cashed routing