[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

[Paul Grun]

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>The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so OFA
>should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream works.
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>Jason
>--

That's actually not true.  The founding impetus was to prevent the nascent InfiniBand industry from fracturing under the weight of multiple software implementations of the verbs semantics described in the IB specs.  The solution to that was to provide a single software stack provided by the Alliance.

-Paul