[ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Beta release is available

[Moshe Kazir]

Are backport patches for SLES9 SP4 and RHEL 5.1  included in this
version ?
 
Moshe
 
 

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	-----Original Message-----
	From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet
Koren
	Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:46 PM
	To: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
	Cc: general at lists.openfabrics.org
	Subject: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Beta release is available
	
	

	Hi, 

	OFED 1.3 Beta release is available on 
	
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz
<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/ <https://bugs.openfabrics.org/>  

	The RC1 release is expected on December 5 

	Tziporet & Vlad 

	
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	Release information: 
	-------------------- 
	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: 
	==================================================== 
	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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