[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for Sep 19, 2011

[Tziporet Koren]

EWG/OFED meeting summary for - Sep 19, 2011:

1. OFED 1.5.4 release:
      - Features:
	- FDR support - Management - done; kernel - RFC submitted today
	- New OpenSM with 3D torus - done
	- Updated SDP - ready; will be in 1.5.4 tree this week
	- New uDAPL package - done
	- qib driver update - will be submitted this week
	- New PSM library - ready - will be in 1.5.4  this week (no API change)
	- iWARP protocol interop - most work done but found a critical bug - try to resolve this week
	- NFS-RDMA support for RHEL 6.1 & SLES11 SP1 - SLES 11 Sp1 is ready - will be in 1.5.4 tree this week
                - Add kernel 3.0 support - done
                - Add Scientific Linux 6.1 64 bit support - done
	- RHEL EL 6.2 - beta - once it will be available (not in RC1) (possibly 5.8 as well)
	- MVAPICH2 - 1.7 release
        - Schedule:
	Daily builds available  (http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.5.4)
	First RC: Sep 26
	GA: Nov 17, 2011 (after interop testing)

Reminder: Kernel & distros support:
	a. Distorts OSes:
	- Redhat:
		RHEL 5.6 & 5.7
		RHEL 6.0 & 6.1 & 6.2 (beta)
	- SLES:
		SLES10 SP4
		SLES11 SP1
	- Scientific Linux 6.1 64

	b. Kernel.org:
		Support only kernels from 2.6.30 to 3.0


Tziporet