[ofa-general] Re: adding a purely software based RDMA driver

[Tom Talpey]

At 06:08 AM 4/30/2009, Bernard Metzler wrote:
>
>Roland, Or,
>
>absolutely right. we do not intend nor are willing or entitled to dump
>a 'softiwarp product' here but are still in the internal process of
>getting something open sourced soon - to be reviewed by the community
>and eventually addded to mainline Linux kernel when appropriate.
>Philip was asking, since building an rpm for the OFED installation
>procedure might be helpful for our internal usage at this point in
>time - but it is not at high priority. so, lets discuss the code, if
>it is here.

I think this is a wonderful place to discuss and review any such code!
Same as for other RDMA providers, of any stripe.

Do you expect any major delays in being able to release it? I, for one,
am eagerly awaiting it. ;-)

Tom.