[ofa-general] OFED (EWG) Feb 9, 2009 meeting minutes

[Jeff Becker]

Hi Tziporet

Tziporet Koren wrote:
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> These are the OFED (EWG) meeting minutes for Feb 09 on OFED 1.4.1 release
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> Meeting Summary:
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> ==============
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> 1. Agreed on 1.4.1 release schedule - GA is planed for April 7
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> 2. Reviewed 1.4.1 status
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> 3. Reviewed Sonoma agenda
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> Details:
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> ======
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> 1. OFED 1.4.1 schedule:
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>           o RC1 - Mar 3
>           o RC2 - Mar 17
>           o RC3 - Mar 31
>           o GA  - Apr 7
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> 2. OFED 1.4.1 release status:
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>           o New OSes:
>                 + RH 5.3 - done
>                 + SLES 11 - schedule is OK. RC3 already available,
>                   need to create backports
>                   Tziporet to check with Novell if we can place the
>                   sources on the OFA server
>

Thanks to NASA's developing relationship with Novell, I got access to
SLES11 rc3 iso's. I'm downloading them now, and will start on the
backports when that's done.

-jeff

>           o Open MPI - we will take 1.3.1
>           o RDS with iWARP support - good progress
>           o NFS/RDMA backports - RHEL 5.2 should be ready in 2 weeks
>           o Critical bug fixes
>             As far as I know these are the critical bugs that should
>             be fixed:
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>             1383            blo     jackm at mellanox.co.il    Local
>             protection error on transmit from ipoib datagram to… - on work
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>             1287    maj     jackm at mellanox.co.il    IPoIB datagram
>             mode initial packet loss - we will check if we can fix this
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>           o Need to add 1.4.1 to bugzilla
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> 3. Sonoma updates from Bill Boas:
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> Bill sent the agenda - and we reviewed it in the meeting
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> Comments and suggestions should be sent to Bill.
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> There is a need for more PR - if companies are willing to put the
> Press release on on their web site
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>
> Tziporet
>