[ewg] Version of OFED in RHEL6?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 22 April 2010, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:50 -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> > Jon Forrest wrote:
> > > What version of OFED should we expect to
> > > find in RHEL6?
> >
> > It looks like RHEL6 will not include all of OFED, but pick things from
> > OFED's upstream. see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463454
> >
> > "All of the SGI package requests are met as of the Beta. However, please
> > note that the packages are pulled from upstream, and not from OFED.
> > Going forward in RHEL6 we will be pulling all InfiniBand related code
> > from upstream (from the upstream Linus kernel for kernel code and from
> > the various upstream package maintainers for individual packages). So if
> > people have specific requests for a certain feature in a certain
> > package, then they need to request that specific package be updated."
>
> So what is the answer to the OP's original question though?  Probably
> this is not really a question for this list, but surely, somebody here
> knows...  Given the above statement about getting OFED from the upstream
> kernel rather than an OFA release, what does that mean in terms of which
> actual version of OFED will be in RHEL6?

I interpret Dougs comment as: no version of OFED. The infiniband stack will be 
a different set of infiniband packages than any specific OFED release.

/Peter

> An additional note on the above mentioned bug notes:
>
>         According to the latest builds, the following package version
>         are in 6.0:
>
>         infiniband-diags-1.5.3-1.el6
>         perftest-1.2.3-1.el6
>         qperf-0.4.6-1.el6
>
> That first one kinda indicates to me that it might be OFED (core) 1.5.3.
> Would that be an unreasonable conclusion?
>
> b.
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