[ofw] RE: Removing MFT tools from svn

[Reuven Amitai]

My intentions were naive. I suggest to remove these tools because I
wonder who uses these tools directly.
There is different package (for Mellanox HCAs) that dedicated for fw
tasks which is up to date. Why not use it ?
I understand that OFED insist that the code will be part from the
distribution.
Is there need just to maintain and update the code here only for review
?
Are there tools that no one use and can be removed (fwupdate, anything
else ?)
 
Reuven.

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From: Fab Tillier [mailto:ftillier at windows.microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:05 PM
To: Reuven Amitai; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: Removing MFT tools from svn



Ask yourself this: are you planning on removing the FW update utility
from OFED and let it be provided by vendors only?  If not, why would you
treat the Windows release differently?

 

FW update functionality should be part of WinOF.  Not everyone uses
vendor releases. There are some stale directories, for sure - fwupdate
is one - and those should be deleted.  The rest should be kept current.

 

-Fab

 

From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Reuven Amitai
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:16 AM
To: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [ofw] Removing MFT tools from svn

 

Hi,

 

I suggest that the following directories will be removed from svn
repository :

fwupdate, flint, mread, mwrite, mst, spark (all located under
trunk\tools).

These tools aren't part of WinOF release and should be supplied by the
HCA vendor.

Moreover, the tools aren't updated (1.0.1.2676 version while 2.1.0.4337
at OFED - Linux. I got the versions from other svn)

 

What do you think about it?

 

Thanks, Reuven.

 

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