[openib-general] Re: [Rdma-developers] Meeting(07/22) summary:OpenRDMA community development discussion

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:26:14AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >Here's my take from the discussions so far:
> >- RNICs can probably be made to work under the IB verbs (with changes of
> >course).
> 
> I would go further and state that the RNIC community seems reluctant to do 
> so.

Then tell them to come up with an alternative.  We're not going to

 - include RNIC/PI or something similar to it
 - pile abstraction layers or abstractions layers (the kDAPL approach)

so if the RNIC community can find anything better they should propose
it.  OTOH they're not even able to get a NIC driver OpenSource so I'm
not going to waste more time on them.