[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Jan 14th, 2019 - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Attendees                        Company
Adit Ranadive                  VMware
Bill Snapko                        Cavium
Arlin Davis                         Intel
Rupert Dance                    SW Forge
Sindhu Devale                   Intel
Steve Wise                        Chelsio
Vladimir Sokolovsky         Mellanox


Minutes:



*        OFED future plans and timelines for 2019

*        Discussion on 4.17-1 release, adding RH7.6

o   Vlad can start in ~3 weeks with core backports, HW vendors follow (2-4 weeks), and testing (2-4 weeks)

o   This would put RC1 late February/early March, GA April.

o   This may align with interop spring event in March/April timeframe.

o   Note: I missed SLES12.4 so we would add both RH7.6 and SLES12.4

*        Discussion on skipping 4.17-1 and moving right to kernel.org 5.0

o   Kernel.org is now at 5.0 RC2, would be nice to start with RC's

?  opportunity to test and get fixes upstream kernel

o   Might take a bit longer to get to OFED 5.0 RC and delay OFED support for RH7.6/SLES 12.4

o   This might align us with RH8.0 and SLES15.1 and get us support sooner



*        Agreement to take the discussion to a wider audience  - here are the questions:

o   Do we work 4.17-1, pick up RH7.6/SLES12.4, March/April GA timeframe?

o   Do we skip 4.17-1, move ahead to OFED 5.0 to get closer to upstream code base and kernel.org RC's?



Action Item: Please send your preference to the ewg mailing list so we can collectively decide the next release.



Note: Vlad is busy for next 3 weeks so work won't start until first week of February.



Regards,



Arlin


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