[ofw] WinOF 1.0.1 release available @ OFA website

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:19 -0800, Smith, Stan wrote:
> Please reference www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WinOF/
> 
> [11-21-07] WinOF 1.0.1 - A refresh release for WinOF 1.0
> 
> 
> Summary Changes since WinOF [1.0.0] (svn.614)
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 0) WinOF 1.0.1 based on openib-windows src revision 864.
> 
> 1) WinOF 1.0.1 installer based on open source WIX 2.0 (Windows Installer
> XML) technology.
>    - Complete WIX installer source in openib-windows subversion src tree
> (branches).
>      InstallShield is no longer required; WIX is free open source.
> 
> 2) manual.htm updates on
>    - DAT information links.
>    - DAT application build environments
>    - Port lids displayed in vstat command output.
>    - WIX installer changes.
> 
> 3) Release_notes.htm updates
>    - WinOF 1.0.1 based on svn src version 864?
>    - latest MS OS updates contain the WSD Hot-Fix patch.
> 
> 4) DAT/DAPL 2.0 runtime libraries released with InfiniBand extended
> operations for
>    - RDMA write with Immediate data
>    - Atomic Compare and Swap
>    - Atomic Fetch and Add
> 
> 5) DAT/DAPL Application Build environments.
>    - documented in manual.htm
>    - Optional Header files in %SystemDrive%\DAT\v{1/2}\DAT
> 
> 6) WSD patches
>    - <null> pointer fix.
>    - IB verbs CA attributes alignment fix.
>    - IPv4 address copy respectful of IA64 alignment.
> 
> 7) SRP patches
>    - added a flow management mechanism for better sustaining work under
> stress.
>    - added Registry parameter Mode Flags (for debugging and tuning
> purposes):
>        1 - don't use FMR_POOL
>        2 - increase StorPort SG list (disallowed by DDK).
>    - support maximal buffer size (up to 1MB). It was 64KB, because of
> StorPort
>      limitation of 16 SG list size.
> 
> 8) IB Core
>    - (IBBUS,MTHCA,SRP) added support for fmr_pool (only for kernel).
>    - Added new functions to IBAL interface, so its version increased.
> 
> 9) IA64 is now fully tested and integrated into the WinOF install.
>    - Local MAD packets aligned, prevents vstat from crashing the system.
> 
> 10) WinOF integrated into OpenFabrics Alliance download page.
>    - http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads.htm, scan for WInOF link.
> 
> 
> 'Thank you' to all the contributing companies/developers - without you
> there is nothing...

A request relative to the WinOF release moving forward:

Can vnic be renamed to something like qlgcvnic as was already done on
the Linux side ?

Thanks.

-- Hal

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