[ofw] RE: Removing MFT tools from svn

[Reuven Amitai]

Please see inline ..

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From: Fab Tillier [mailto:ftillier at windows.microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:25 PM
To: Reuven Amitai; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: Removing MFT tools from svn



Will the FW package on the Mellanox downloads page work and be supported
with any binaries built from the WinOF SVN source?  Is Mellanox stepping
up to support this, and release new versions whenever a change to the
drivers is checked into SVN would break a previous version? 

[Reuven]  The new FW package doesn't work directly with IBAL. It's
independent which has the benefit in case of inability to install WinOF
from any reason.

 

I'm very weary of having the WinOF SVN become (or rather having already
become) a second class repository where members periodically dump large
amounts of code to bring it up to date with their own internal tree.  I
wish people would treat the WinOF SVN more as the primary source
repository for Windows.  Community members don't have visibility in the
various vendor's internal trees to see the detailed change history, and
that information is lost when large patches are merged in to bring
things up to date. 

[Reuven] First, you are right that it's more desirable that WinOF svn
will be the primary repository. We are in the middle of movement toward
achieving that goal.

nevertheless, there is still difficulties to work with it (just one to
mention: lag for every simple command). Tools directories synchronized
less often. (OFED MFT tools are one major version ahead). 

Is it preferred to leave it like that ? delete stale directories (which
ones except fwupdate)? or live with outdated tools sources (I don't know
how often they will updated)

 

 

-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 9:51 AM
To: Fab Tillier; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [ofw] RE: Removing MFT tools from svn

 

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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