[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for today (Dec 13, 2011)

Ira Weiny weiny2 at llnl.gov
Fri Jan 6 14:12:55 PST 2012


On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:10:19 -0800
"Woodruff, Robert J" <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com> wrote:

> I took an AR from the last meeting to solicit input on
> the Linux distro/kernel list that we will support in the 
> next release of OFED-3.2.
> 
> The suggestion in the meeting was that we drop support for all
> RHEL EL 5.x versions. We'd like peoples input on that as it may be
> hard to do backports from kernel.org 3.2 all the way back to the 2.6.18 Redhat kernel base. 

I think that is reasonable.

Ira

> 
> For the other distro/kernel releases, here is a start of a list
> of the distos that I'd like to see supported.
> 
> RHEL EL 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and possibly 6.3 if released before OFED-3.2 .
> In the past, we have only supported the latest 2 updates of RHEL, but I 
> received some feedback that it would be better to support the last 4.
> 
> SLES 11 SP 1 and SLES 11 SP 2 (if released before OFED-3.2)
> Scientific Linux 6.1
> Kernel.org 3.2  (what other kernel.org versions do we need to support ?)
> 
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