[ewg] OFED Updates

[Rupert Dance]

Hello Ihara,

I discussed this with Vlad before we did these builds and here was his
reasoning for suggesting these changes:

"We should change versioning from "3.5.x" to "3.5-x". Current versioning may
be confusing as OFED-3.5.1/2 is not based on linux-3.5.1/2 but on
linux-3.5."

Thanks

Rupert

-----Original Message-----
From: Shuichi Ihara [mailto:sihara at ddn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:26 AM
To: Rupert Dance
Cc: <ewg at lists.openfabrics.org>; <ofalab at iol.unh.edu>; <ofs at soft-forge.com>
Subject: Re: [ewg] OFED Updates


Hello,

I have an confusion a little bit.

> ·         OFED 3.5-1 not OFED 3.5.1

I built OFED-3.5-1-RC1.tgz against RHEL6.4 kernel and the compile was fine.
However, the compiled compat-rdma and compat-rdma-devel rpms's version is
still 3.5, not 3.5-1.

compat-rdma-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
compat-rdma-devel-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm

_version in compat-rdma.spec should be 3.5-1, instead of 3.5, shouldn't it?

%{!?_version: %define _version 3.5}
%{!?_release: %define _release OFED.3.5.1}

Please advise.

Thanks
Ihara

On Jun 25, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com> wrote:

> Meeting minutes and notes from the OFA EWG Meeting held on 6/24/2013
> 
> 
> 
> Attendees
> 
> ·         Steve Wise – Chelsio
> 
> ·         Robert Woodruff - Intel
> 
> ·         Tatyana Nikolova – Intel
> 
> ·         Tom Elken - Intel
> 
> ·         Rupert Dance – Software Forge
> 
> 
> 
> Updates
> 
> Vlad suggested via email that we name OFED 3.5 point releases using a 
> hyphen rather than a dot release. His reasoning is that the EWG is 
> working to insure that we stay synchronized with kernel.org and there 
> is no such thing a 3.5.1 or 3.5.2 kernel. So the EWG “point” releases 
> will follow thins
> format:
> 
> 
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5-1 not OFED 3.5.1
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5-2 not OFED 3.5.2
> 
> ·         etc
> 
> 
> 
> OFED Status
> 
> OFED 3.5-1
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.1 RC1 released on 6/24/2013
> 
> o   This release is identical to OFED 3.5 except that it adds support for
> RHEL 6.4. There are no new packages.
> 
> o
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-1/OFED-3.5-1-RC1.tgz 
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.1 RC2
> 
> o   Tom Elken from Intel mentioned that they have found an issue with the
> Intel True Scale PSM package with RHEL 6.4. This affects both RHEL 6.3 
> and RHEL 6.4. Tom wants to review the status and provide a fix which 
> will be available for RC2. There is a current work around using 
> ZStream kernels
> 
> o   Pending the Intel fix – goal is July 15th
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.1 GA 
> 
> o   After fixes have been applied in RC2 we will do a GA. Goal is end of
> July.
> 
> 
> 
> OFED 3.5.2
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.2 Daily Build released on 6/24/2013
> 
> o   This release support RHEL 6.4
> 
> o
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-2-daily/OFED-3.5-2-
> 201306
> 24-0804.tgz
> 
> o   New packages added
> 
> §  dapl-2.0.37
> 
> §  libcxgb4-1.3.0
> 
> §  libibverbs-1.1.7
> 
> §  libmlx4-1.0.5
> 
> §  librdmacm-1.0.17
> 
> §  mstflint-3.0-0.5
> 
> §  opensm-3.3.16
> 
> §  perftest-2.0-0.50
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.2 RC1
> 
> o   Woody mentioned that SLES-11 SP3 is about to be released and he would
> like to include support for this OS. His team is already working on an 
> update for their MIC OFED version so he will provide the patches to do 
> this and we will include it in the OFED 3.5-2 Daily build before we do an
RC.
> 
> o   2 weeks after Tom Elken, Steve Wise, Tatyana and others have a chance
to
> review and communicate their plans with their teams.
> 
> ·         OFED 3.5.2 GA – target is early August 
> 
> 
> 
> OFED 3.11 or 3.12
> 
> ·         Goal is to start work in August 2013 and RC in October GA in
time
> for SC 2013
> 
> 
> 
> Open Issues
> 
> Mellanox has requested that Software Forge (SFI) take over the 
> maintenance of OFED and so we have been making a transition from Vlad 
> being the maintainer to Rupert maintaining this project. Please notify 
> me of any updated packages and issues that you discover during 
> testing. There are two addresses that may be used:
> 
> ·         Rupert: rsdance at soft-forge.com
> 
> ·         SFI OFA Team: ofs at soft-forge.com 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Rupert
> 
> 
> 
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