[ofa-general] OFED 1.5 alpha release is available

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED 1.5-alpha4 is available

Notes: 

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.5/OFED-1.5-alpha4.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/  for
OFED 1.5

Vladimir & Tziporet

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Release information:
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Linux Operating Systems:
  o   Linux Operating Systems:
        - RedHat EL4 up6:       2.6.9-67.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL4 up7:       2.6.9-78.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL4 up8:       2.6.9-89.ELsmp
        - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5
        - RedHat EL5 up3:       2.6.18-128.el5
        - SLES10 SP2:           2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
        - SLES11:               2.6.27.19-5-default
        - OpenSuSE 10.3:        2.6.22.5-31         *
        - OEL 4 up7             2.6.9-78.ELsmp
        - OEL 5 up2             2.6.18-92.el5
        - CentOS5.2             2.6.18-92.el5
        - CentOS5.3             2.6.18-128.el5
        - kernel.org:           2.6.29 and 2.6.30

      * Minimal QA for these versions
  
Systems:
      * x86_64
      * x86
      * ia64
      * ppc64

Changes from OFED-1.4.1
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1 General changes
  o Kernel code based on 2.6.30

2 SDP
  o Performance improvements
    
3 uDAPL
  o New library

4 Management
  o OpenSM
    - Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm.
    - Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implemented)
    - Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
    - Weighted Lid Matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR).
    - I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree).

5 MPI:
    - For now same versions as in OFED 1.4.1

Tasks that should be completed for the beta
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1. Complete Backports for all kernel modules
2. Move to new libraries package scheme (as we agreed in Sonoma)
3. SDP Zero Copy
4. Stability, stability, Stability ...