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

[Davis, Arlin R]

Great point Adit. OS support vs new Features. 

New features would include uAPI, P2P, new NVMe-oF transport, HNS RoCE Driver, Cisco VIC, Amazon EFA, Soft iWARP (?), to name a few.

> 
> I can go either way. It depends on whether you want to prioritize adding OS
> support versus new features.
> If you want a shiny new release for the interop event I would say go with a
> 4.17-1 that adds the new OS'. Then you can switch to 5.1 which will probably
> have an RC right around that time. It should also help us get RHEL 8.0 / SLES
> 15.1 like you mentioned.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adit
>