The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of v1.6.2:
http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.6.2 is a bug fix release which addresses all known bugs in the v1.6 serie and improves a couple minor points. The main reason for this release is to fix a license issue. The GPL license of libpci/pciutils taints hwloc whenever you link with it (making hwloc *not BSD* anymore). We now use libpciaccess (from X.org) by default instead of libpci. See the Installation section in the documentation for details. We will also release fixed releases of previous branches later (at least v1.5.2 and likely v1.4.3 and v1.3.3). The following is a summary of the changes since v1.6: * Use libpciaccess instead of pciutils/libpci by default for I/O discovery. pciutils/libpci is only used if --enable-libpci is given to configure because its GPL license may taint hwloc. See the Installation section in the documentation for details. * Fix get_cpubind on Solaris when bound to a single PU with processor_bind(). Thanks to Eugene Loh for reporting the problem and providing a patch. This release does not change anything related to Windows, so I will only upload the winzips of the final v1.6.2. -- Brice
