[ofa-general] FW: OFED 1.2 rc1 release

[Tziporet Koren]

> Hi,
> 
> OFED 1.2-RC1 is available on
> http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/
> File: OFED-1.2-rc1.tgz
> BUILD_ID contains info on all packages sources location.
> 
> Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/
> 
RC2 due date is 17-April

> Tziporet & Vlad
> 
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Release information:

> OS support:
> Novell:
>     - SLES 9.0 SP3
>     - SLES10 (and SP1 beta2 partially tested)
> Redhat:
>     - Redhat EL4 up3 and up4
>     - Redhat EL5
> kernel.org:
>     - 2.6.20
>     - 2.6.19
> 
> Note: Fedora C6 and SuSE Pro 10 are not part of the official list.
> We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile
> and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.
> 
> Systems:
>     * x86_64
>     * x86
>     * ia64
>     * ppc64
> 
> Main changes from OFED-1.1-alpha:
> 
>    1. The default prefix changed from /usr/local/ofed to /usr and this
> implied the following changes too:
>       - uninstall.sh script renamed and replaced:
> <prefix>/sbin/ofed_uninstall.sh
>       - BUILD_ID is part of <prefix>/bin/ofed_info script
>    2. Fixed 57 bugs (see attachment for all bugs fixed)
> 
Major limitations and known issues:

> bug_id 	bug_severity 	assigned_to 	short_short_desc
> 513 	critical 	bos at pathscale.com 	error while installing
> ipath driver
> 420 	critical 	monil at voltaire.com 	PKey table reordering
> caused by SM failover stops ipoib traffic
> 431 	critical 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB CM locks up server
> on SLES10/RHEL4 ppc64
> 465 	critical 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB CM HA fails after
> several hours of failovers
> 436 	major 	arlin.r.davis at intel.com 	Intel MPI and HP MPI DDR
> bandwidth dropped after OFED 1.2 alpha
> 406 	major 	eitan at mellanox.co.il 	"double free" abort in ibdaigui
> 503 	major 	halr at voltaire.com 	Linux distributions
> Interoperability of IPoIB IPv6 does not work
> 459 	major 	monis at voltaire.com 	support ib-bonding on
> RHEL4U4/RHEL5, put kernel name in RPM name, and clean up better
> 484 	major 	mst at dev.mellanox.co.il 	mstflint -d mthca0 fails on
> ppc64
> 506 	major 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB IPv4 multicast throughput
> is poor
> 508 	major 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB CM multicast is hogging
> interrupts
> 438 	major 	rolandd at cisco.com 	OFED SRP does not work with DDN
> IB storage large LUNs
> 464 	major 	rolandd at cisco.com 	release libibverbs-1.1 final
> before OFED 1.2
> 509 	major 	tziporet at mellanox.co.il 	turn on IPoIB CM by
> default
> 499 	major 	vlad at mellanox.co.il 	module compiled over ofed won't
> load due to symbol version mismatch
> 
> See bugzilla for all open issues.
> 
> 
> Tasks that should be completed for RC2:
> 
   1.  Support SLES10 SP1 RC1
   2. Stabilize IPoIB CM on PPC and with HA.
   3. Fix all blocker, critical and major bugs


Note: Vlad, Michael and myself are on vacation now and will return to
work only Tuesday next week. We will not have an email access.
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