[ofa-general] OFED 1.2.c-9 is available

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi All,

OFED 1.2.c-9 is available now on the OFA server under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/connectx/release/
Note: this release was tested with FW 2.1.000 that will soon be
available on Mellanox web site for download.

Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
=================================
o CPU architectures:
        - x86_64
        - x86
        - ppc64
        - ia64

o Linux Operating Systems:
        - RedHat EL4 up3: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5
        - SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
        - kernel.org: 2.6.20.x
        - SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp (partially tested)

Main changes from OFED 1.2.c-8:
=========================
1. Kernel oops in IPoIB on restart of the driver.
2. IPoIB CM is now the default.
3. MPI with SRQ is supported.
4. Itanium is now supported.

mlx4 Fixed Bugs and Enhancements
===========================
- Added support for PCI-Ex gen2 devices; device IDs: 26418 and 26428.
- Query QP and query SRQ are now supported.
- Internal error flow was added.
- Number of QPs that can be attached to the same multicast group was
increased to 56.
- SRQ is now supported.
- Fork is now supported.

ConnectX specific known issues and limitations
===================================
- The following commands and/or features are not supported:
  o Resize CQ
  o FMRs
  o APM
  o SQD
- ibstat does not present all entries. Use ibv_devinfo instead.
- To load the driver on machines with 64KB default page size UAR bar
must be
  enlarged. 64KB page size is the default of PPC with RHEL5 and Itanium
with
  64KB page size enabled.
  Perform the following three steps:
  1. Add the following line in the firmware configuration (INI) file
under the
     [HCA] section:
       log2_uar_bar_megabytes = 5
  2. Burn a modified firmware image with the changed INI file
  3. Reboot the system



Tziporet Koren
Software Director
Mellanox Technologies
mailto: tziporet at mellanox.co.il
Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380

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