[ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

Tziporet Koren tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Jun 18 01:10:41 PDT 2009


Todd Rimmer wrote:
> Here is the change needed to mvapich as included in OFED 1.4.1
>
> However end users will need some notice to rebuild their apps.  Especially ISVs.  I'm not sure what the OFED policy is for ABI changes, but at least 1-2 year notice seems the minimum (in QLogic's past efforts we try to maintain ABIs much longer than that as we still have some customers running 2-3 year old applications).
>   

Todd,
We do not remove libibcommon in 1.4.1
So - if having this library is important for 1.5 can someone from Qlogic 
take care for it?

Tziporet



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