[ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Beta release is available

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi, 

OFED 1.3 Beta release is available on
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/

The RC1 release is expected on December 5

Tziporet & Vlad 

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Release information: 
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OS support: 
Novell: 
    - SLES10 
    - SLES10 SP1 and up1
Redhat: 
    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 
    - Redhat EL5 and up1
kernel.org: 
    - 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc2

Systems: 
    * x86_64 
    * x86 
    * ia64 
    * ppc64*

Main Changes from OFED 1.3-alpha
================================
*	Kernel code based on 2.6.24-rc2
*	New packages:
*	SRP target
*	qperf test from Qlogic
*	ibsim package
*	uDAPL 2.0 library (1.0 & 2.0 are coexist)
*	New OSes Support:
*	RHEL 5 up1
*	SLES10 SP1 up1
*	Compilation issues resolved:
*	Open MPI compilation on SLES10 SP1
*	ibutils compiles on SLES10 PPC64 (64 bits)
*	Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches
*	Prefix is now supported properly
*	RDS implementation for API version 2 was updated form 1.2.5
branch
*	Fix binary compatibility of libibverbs caused by XRC
implementation
*	Uninstall is now working properly
*	ib-bonding update to release 19
*	MPI packages update:
*	mvapich-1.0.0-1625.src.rpm
*	mvapich2-1.0.1-1.src.rpm
*	openmpi-1.2.4-1.src.rpm

Mlx4 driver specific changes:
*	Enable changing the default of HCA resource limits with module
parameters
*	Default number of maximum QPs is now 128K (was 64K)
*	Fixing max_cqe's (not adding an extra cqe)
*	Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify
*	Sanity check userspace send queue sizes
*	Several bug fixes in XRC


Tasks that should be completed for the beta release:
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1. 32-bit libraries to be supported on SLES10 SP1 Update1.
2. Fix SDP stability issues
3. IPoIB performance improvements for small messages
4. Fix bugs

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