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

['Christoph Hellwig']

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:40:46PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The current Ammasso RNIC driver is released under the GPL license now.  At
> this point in time, its not openIB.  We intend to develop an open source
> driver that plugs into the openIB framework and does _not_ implement
> RNIC/PI.  And we'll provide this as a series of patches during development
> to the openIB community for general review.   

Very nice.  First time I hear people actually standing up and doing
useful work.