Hi, OFED 1.4 alpha release is available on http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4/OFED-1.4-alpha1.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 1.4 The beta release is expected on August 7 2008 Tziporet & Vlad ======================================================================== Release information: -------------------- Linux Operating Systems: - RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp - RedHat EL4 up6: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp - RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5 - RedHat EL5 up1: 2.6.18-53.el5 - RedHat EL5 up2: 2.6.18-92.el5 - Fedora C9: 2.6.25-14.fc9 * - SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp - SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp - SLES10 SP1 up1: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp - SLES10 SP2: 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp - OpenSuSE 10.3: 2.6.22.5-31 * - kernel.org: 2.6.26 * OSes that are partially tested Systems: * x86_64 * x86 * ia64 * ppc64 Main Changes from OFED 1.3 ========================== 1. General changes o Kernel code based on 2.6.26 (will be 2.6.27) o Added iSER target package o Added NFS-RDMA support (for 2.6.26 only for now) 2. IPoIB o LRO support - when we move to 2.6.27 3. SDP o Bug fixes in the state machine and close flow 4. qlgc_vnic o Support for hotswap of EVIC and dynamic update of existing connections with the addition of QLogic dynamic update daemon. o Performance improvements in handling of Ethernet broadcast/multicast traffic. 5. RDS (for now only kernel 2.6.26 is working) o GA of RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3 o iWARP support 6. uDAPL o Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with Windows o Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only o v1 library package has been renamed to compat-dapl-1.2.8-1 7. Management o OpenSM - APM - disjoint paths - Path balancing for LMC + console diagnostics - OpenSM configuration unification - MGID to MLID mapping for IPv6 SNM - Routing engines chain - IBA 1.2.1 additions - Failover/Handover improvements o ibutils: - Congestion Control - Report created in CSV format o Diagnostic tools: - ibnetdiscover library - to accelerate another tools 8. Low level drivers: o mlx4: Enable Virtual Protocol Interconnect - Eth and IB on the same device Tasks that should be completed for the beta: ============================================ 1. Move to kernel base 2.6.27-rc1 with the features: - New verbs to support BMME (Fast memory thru send queue, Local invalidate send work requests, Read with invalidate. - IPoIB LRO 2. RDS to work on distro OSes 3. NFS-RDMA to work on distro OSes 4. New MPI versions: MVAPICH 1.1, OpenMPI 1.3, MVAPICH2 1.2 5. OSM: Cashed routing _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg