[ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

I have added version 1.3alpha2 to bugzilla.

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of 
> Tziporet Koren
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 7:31 AM
> To: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Cc: general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available on
> http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/
> File: OFED-1.3-alpha2.tgz 
> To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 
> 
> Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/
> 
> The beta release is expected on 29 October
> 
> Tziporet & Vlad 
> 
> ==============================================================
> ==========
> 
> Release information: 
> --------------------
> OS support: 
> Novell: 
>     - SLES10 
>     - SLES10 SP1
> Redhat: 
>     - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 
>     - Redhat EL5 
> kernel.org: 
>     - 2.6.23 
> 
> Note: Fedora C6 and Open SUSE 10.2 and Redhat EL4 up3 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*
> 
> *Note: On PPC64 installation fails on the packages: ibutils, 
> mvapich2, 
>        MPI tests over Open MPI.
> 
> 
> Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5
> ============================
> 1. General changes
>    o Kernel code based on 2.6.23
>    o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP
>    o Added Neteffect driver (nes)
> 
> 2. Package and install
>    o There is a new install script. See 
> OFED_Installation_Guide.txt for
>      more details on the new installation and build procedures.
>          Note: There is an easy way to install in one command line 
>                without a conf file, and without the interactive mode.
> 		   Example:  ./install.pl --all --prefix /usr/local 
>    o User space packages are now in different source RPMs (as 
> opposed to
>      one source RPM in previous OFED releases).
>    o The option for a build without installing is not supported any
> more.
>    o Added an option to generate tarball with kernel sources for each
>      kernel.
> 
> 3. IPoIB
>    o Stateless offloads
>    o IGMP for user-space multicast IB
>    o NAPI is enabled default
>    o High availability is supported via the bonding module 
> only (removed
>      ipoib tool scripts)
> 
> 4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release
>    o Keep-alive
>    o Asynch IO
>    o Send Zero Copy
> 
> 5. iSER
>    o ???
> 
> 6. qlgc_vnic
>    o Update for PathScale HCA
> 
> 7. RDS
>    o RDMA API (using FMRs) - under work
> 
> 8. uDAPL - these are not yet in the alpha release
>    o Add DAT 2.0 API run-time library and development support.
>      uDAPL 2.0 will include IB extensions for IB rdma write with
> immediate
>      data and IB atomic operations.
>    o Both uDAPL 1.2 and 2.0 packages will be provided and 
> will co-exist
> 
> 9. Libraries
>    a. libibverbs 1.1.1
>       o Added Extended RC transport type
>    b. librdmacm (uCMA) 1.0.3
> 
> 10. OSM
>     o More routing performance improvements
>     o Even more speedups
>     o Better packaging/installation
>     o "Native" daemon mode
>     o Performance management
>     o Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex
> 
> 11. Management
>     o Multiple partitions
> 
> 12. MPI:
>     a. OSU MVAPICH
>        o Version is 0.9.9 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later
>     b. Open MPI
>        o Version is 1.2.2-1 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later
>     c. OSU MVAPICH2
>        o Version was updated to 1.0-1.
>  
> 
> 
> Tasks that should be completed for the beta release:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 1. Integrate all SDP features
> 2. Complete RDS work
> 3. Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches
> 4. Fix compilation problems on PPC
> 5. Add qperf test from Qlogic
> 6. Rebase kernel code on 2.6.24 rc1 (depending it's availability)
> 7. Support RHEL 5 up1
> 8. SPEC files should be part of each user space package
> 
> 
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