[ofa-general] [PATCH ofed-1.4.1 relnotes] Update cxgb3 release notes for 1.4.1
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Mon May 11 08:35:09 PDT 2009
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>
---
cxgb3_release_notes.txt | 38 ++++++++------------------------------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
index 5f2edaa..4df6779 100644
--- a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
+++ b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,42 +1,20 @@
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
CHELSIO T3 RNIC RELEASE NOTES
- December 2008
+ May 2009
The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the
-Chelsio S310/320 and R310/320 series adapters. Make sure you choose the
-'cxgb3' and 'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed-1.4 rpms.
+Chelsio S series adapters. Make sure you choose the 'cxgb3' and
+'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed-1.4.1 rpms.
============================================
-New for ofed-1.4
+New for ofed-1.4.1
============================================
-- 7.0 Firmware support. See below for more information on updating
-your RNIC to the latest firmware.
-
-- Memory Managment Extensions including:
- - Fast register memory regions
- - Invalidate local memory region work request
- - Zero stag support via the local DMA lkey field
- - Read with invalidate local stag work request
-
-- RDS bcopy mode enabled for iWARP devices
-
-============================================
-Recent Enhancements
-============================================
+- NFSRDMA support.
-- Various MPI libraries are enabled via a new iw_cxgb3 module option
-called peer2peer. When loading iw_cxgb3, set peer2peer=1 to enable Intel
-MPI version 3.1.038, HP MPI version 2.02.05.01, OpenMPI (will be released
-with OpenMPI-1.3), and Scali MPI (will be available in version 3.13.7).
-This option must be set on all systems in your cluster. See more info
-below on running these MPIs. NOTE: None of these MPIs are included in
-the ofed-1.4 release. Contact the specific vendors for obtaining the
-MPI code. Open MPI can be pulled from www.open-mpi.org.
-
-- Large memory registration. User applications can now register > 30MB
-memory regions.
+- 7.4 Firmware support. See below for more information on updating
+your RNIC to the latest firmware.
============================================
Enabling Various MPIs
@@ -64,7 +42,7 @@ chelsio u1.2 nonthreadsafe default libdaplcma.so.1 dapl.1.2 "eth2 0" ""
Intel MPI:
=============
-The following env vars enable Intel MPI version 3.1.038. Place these
+The following env vars enable Intel MPI version >= 3.1.038. Place these
in your user env after installing and setting up Intel MPI:
export RSH=ssh
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