[openib-general] RE: IBDM and IBMgtSim Proposal Comments
Hal Rosenstock
halr at voltaire.com
Thu Jul 7 12:45:14 PDT 2005
Hi Eitan,
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:58, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
[snip]
> > In the OpenIB architecture, umad is the lowest layer library and the
> > diagnostics are built on that. The OSM vendor layer is built on top
> of
> > this. So when the umad and mad libraries are ported to Windows,
> > everything on top of this will work. This includes all diagnostics
> > (OpenIB ones as well as the additional tools you are proposing to
> add).
> [EZ] There is no need to port UMAD to windows!!! We already have OSM
> Vendor ported to it. It works on top of the existing IBAL API
> (actually this is the first OSM Vendor that was ever built).
There is if the OpenIB diagnostics and other applications in the Linux
environment which are not on top of the "OSM" vendor layer are to work
in the Windows environment. That was what started this whole thread.
[snip]
I'll comment on the rest separately.
-- Hal
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