[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting agenda for today - Jun 13 2011

[Steve Wise]

This was the nice feature of OFED-1.6 (plus a cleaned up kernel bldenv with no kernel_patches/fixes)...


On 06/13/2011 11:52 AM, Syoyo Fujita wrote:
> Hello Tziporet,
>
>> 1. Cancel OFED 1.6  and instead have OFED 2.0 in 2012 - work will start after XRC will be accepted to the kernel
>> 2. Add OFED 1.5.x releases:
>>     a. OFED 1.5.3.2:
>>         - With only additional OSes support: RHEL 6.1&  RHEL 5.7
>>         - Schedule: July 20
>>     b. OFED 1.5.4
>>         - Features:
>>                 - FDR support
>>                 - New OpenSM with 3D torus
>>                 - Any other features required?
>>         - Schedule: Sep 15
> Will OFED 1.5.3.2 or 1.5.4 support linux kernel 2.6.37 or above?
>
> I am now using OFED 1.5.3.1 in SL6 with kernel 2.6.36, since I'd like
> to use KVM with AVX support in conjunction with OFED 1.5.x(AVX support
> in KVM is shipped from kernel 2.6.36).
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.6.37 or more for better AVX support in
> KVM(plus, 2.6.36 seems not actively developed any more), but OFED
> 1.5.3.1 does not support 2.6.37+
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