[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-2-rc1 release is available

[Davis, Arlin R]

Hello Lijun Ou,

OFED is produced by the OpenFabrics Enterprise working group (EWG). As part of the distribution, we pull in the latest rdma-core stable branch for user space. For the kernel, we build/install modules based on the EWG community needs and maintainer support via the EWG mailing list. Currently, we are based on kernel.org 4.8 and support backports for RH7-7.4 and SLES12-12.3. Some rNIC vendor's not in kernel.org 4.8 have backported into the OFED 4.8 base by working with the EWG. See the following release notes for vendor support details:

http://downloads.openfabrics.org/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.8-2-rc1-release_notes

After this 4.8-2 release (2-4 weeks if all goes well) we will move to the next major release based on kernel.org 4.15 or 4.16. We would be happy to merge hns in this next release.  Please join ewg mailing list and provide an "hns" maintainer contact for OFED maintenance and backporting. 

http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg

Regards, 

Arlin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of oulijun
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 5:10 PM
> To: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il>; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-2-rc1 release is available
> 
> Hi, all
>   OFED and rdma-core what is the relationship? Why do't include hns in OFED
> packet?
>   If you need to inherit hns, we need to do?
> 
> thanks
> Lijun Ou
> 在 2018/2/10 3:26, Vladimir Sokolovsky 写道:
> > Hi,
> > OFED-4.8-2-rc1 is available at:
> >
> > https://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-4.8-2/OFED-4.8-2-rc1.tgz
> >
> >
> > To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
> >
> > Please report any issues in bugzilla
> > http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/ for OFED 4.8-2
> >
> > Release notes:
> > https://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.8-2-rc1-re
> > lease_notes
> >
> > OFED-4.8-2-rc1 Main Changes from OFED-4.8-1
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------
> > 1. compat-rdma
> > - bnxt_en: Fix Max MTU setting on SLES 12 SP3
> > - qede: SLE12SP3 Backport fix use core min max MTU check
> > - cxgb: SLE12SP3 Backport fix: use net core MTU range checking
> > - Remove vmw_pvrdma tech preview patches
> > - Fixed mlx4 backport
> > - qedr cherry pick: lower message verbosity
> > - Update qib backport for SLES 12.3
> > - bnxt_en: backport for RH 7.0 and 7.1
> > - compat-rdma.spec: Added compat-rdma-firmware subpackage
> > - bnxt_en: Backporting for RHEL 7.4 and SLES12SP3
> > - qedr: Add backports for RHEL 7.4 and SLES 12 SP3
> > - configure: Add parameters for RXE and RDMAVT
> > - ib_iser: Added support for SLES12 SP3
> > - mlx5: Added support for SLES12 SP3
> > - mlx4: Added support for SLES12 SP3
> > - ib_core: Added support for SLES12 SP3
> > - mlx5: Added RHEL7.4 support
> > - mlx4: Added RHEL7.4 support
> > - configure/makefile: Rename CONFIG_INFINIBAND_RXE ->
> CONFIG_RDMA_RXE
> > to match upstream
> >
> > 2. Updated packages
> > - rdma-core-v16.2
> > - fabtests-1.5.3
> > - libfabric-1.5.3
> > - perftest-4.1-0.2.g770623f
> >
> > 3. ofed_scripts
> > - add --with-rdmavt-mod for qib
> > - Add VMware Paravirtual RDMA Driver as an installable driver
> > - Remove vmw_pvrdma tech preview install option
> > - install.pl: Added rdma-core-devel dependency for the perftest build
> > - Revert "install.pl: Enable bnxt_re on supported OSes only"
> > - install.pl: Added compat-rdma-firmware package
> > - install.pl: Enable bnxt_re on supported OSes only
> > - install.pl: Updated rdma-core dependencies
> > - install.pl: Remove requirement on the specific cmake version
> > - install.pl: Added support for SLES12 SP3
> > - install.pl: Added RHEL7.4 support
> >
> >
> > ULP and Driver restrictions:
> > - NVMe-oF (kernel 4.8 only)
> > - NFS-RDMA (SLES12.2 RH7.3 only).
> > - i40iw 10GbE iWARP Adapter (kernel 4.8 only)
> >
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