[ewg] "To OFED or not to OFED"

[Steve Wise]

Hey Tziporet,

Chelsio is definitely committed to OFED and we'll get cxgb3/4 backports 
done soon.  We'll discuss timelines in the next call.

Thanks,

Steve.


On 4/18/2012 10:04 AM, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We started to work on OFED 3.2 and for now we already have the base code working with the new compat framework:
> - IB core (all modules)
> - IPoIB
> - mlx4, mthca - Mellanox drivers
>
> However for the last few months there was no progress on any other low level driver:
> - qib - Intel
> - nec - Intel
> - cxgb3/4 - Chelsio
>
> Since there is no reason to have OFED release for Mellanox only we need to understand the other companies position and commitment for OFED.
>
> We have two options:
> - Drop OFED releases all together. Focus our EWG efforts in pushing APIs, testing of the Linux inbox SW stack and driver enhancements for the RDMA technology
> - Get real commitment from the vendors on dates to provide the backport support (we can move to kernel 3.3 if we decide this)
>
> Please do your internal consideration and come back with your decision.
>   The final decision will be taken in next EWG meeting on May 1.
>
> Thanks
> Tziporet&  Woody
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