Re: [ewg] EWG/OFED bi-weekly meeting - Monday September 11, 2017 , 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes
> ·Woody AR: Once RC1 verify board approves 4.8-1 RC1 release The OFA Board meeting this month is 9/21 - I’ll put it on the agenda. == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available
The unpleasant fact is that the OFA has not been deeply involved, as an organization, in the development and distribution of OFED. That may seem counter-intuitive, and it is certainly not appropriate, but it is the raw truth. The EWG manages, tests, and releases OFED versions. Until recently, that was all done without official review or approval from the larger OFA constituency. There are many issues the OFA needs to get straight if it is to continue to contribute to the community in a positive way. ( and I fully acccept some folks would posit that the OFA has never contributed in a positive way ) This is one of them. From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org on behalf of Jason Gunthorpe Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:17 PM To: Paul Grun Cc: Hefty, Sean; Woodruff, Robert J; Christoph Hellwig; linux-r...@vger.kernel.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:07:02PM +, Paul Grun wrote: > >The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so OFA > >should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream works. > > That's actually not true. The founding impetus was to prevent the > nascent InfiniBand industry from fracturing under the weight of > multiple software implementations of the verbs semantics described > in the IB specs. The solution to that was to provide a single > software stack provided by the Alliance. I think you are splitting hairs, from the start alliance members focused their efforts upstream (eg Roland getting Linus to accept drivers/infiniband). Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Apr, 10, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Jeff Becker wrote: > >> · Board approval process for OFED 4.8 should begin, need approval by May >> 15th GA target. >> § Woody/Arlin to draft formal email request to board If the board votes to approve all future releases at the April 20 Board meeting - is that sufficient ? It is possible the Board may want to approve each release individually until the by-laws are fully approved. ( releasing non-dual-licensed OFED is in violation of the existing by-laws ) == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Mar 27, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Meeting Cancelled
If this helps, it is from 3/21 … to my knowledge the most recent summary sent by Doug Ledford. Updates from version 12: • Minor improvements to qedr provider • Add libpvrdma provider for VMWare rdma virt devices • Improved RoCE AH creation • Packet Pacing support • Various github build system improvements • Updates to Debian and Red Hat packaging • Timestamp support in mlx4 provider • Make the libibverbs/provider interface private • Clean up headers for improved multi-arch support • Add Verbs Direct support for mlx5 provider • Implement new, more specific multi-arch barrier methods • Update all providers to the modern registration method and remove ibv_register_driver entirely • Switch the code to use gcc endian conversion functions • Fix an endianness issue in srp_daemon • Implement a new release mechanism that should create more distro friendly tarballs based on the common release tagging format • Updates to make it possible to run sparse on rdma-core • Fixes found by running sparse on rdma-core • Fixes to travis tarball upload script • Fix to broken cmake test > On Apr 6, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:22:26PM +, Davis, Arlin R wrote: >> We need to finalize the changes going into RC2. Can I get some feedback >> regarding moving to rdma-core v13 or staying with v12? Moving to rdma-core >> v13 would make vmw_pvrdma inclusion easier but would require VMware to pull >> back their changes pushed into RC1. >> >> Comments? >> > > I'm not opposed to rolling back the RC1 changes for vmw_pvrdma. There are > fairly trivial. However, you would have find out the various differences > between rdma-core-12 and 13, f.e. bug fixes, functionality changes, etc. > and how those impact the existing providers. > > The other thing I wanted to point out was regarding the Qlogic provider - > rdma-core-12 added them as a user space provider but there isnt a kernel > driver in OFED 4.8. I believe they were added as a provider in 4.9 kernel. > Not sure, if that is an issue for you guys. > > Thanks, > Adit > > > > ___ > ewg mailing list > ewg@lists.openfabrics.org > http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] Fwd: Final: OFA email motion results
Below is the final language from the OFA Board motion to approve release of v3.18-3, and the text to be put in the LICENSE file. This motion passed unanimously via an email vote. > Motion: > >> The OFA accepts the nature of Linux kernel space code as GPLv2 and user >> space as dual-licensed (GPLv2 and BSD) and approves the release of OFED >> 3.18-3 with the following text included in the LICENSE text file in OFED >> project root. >> >> "OFED is distributed as a source tarball and includes both user space and >> Linux kernel space code. The Linux kernel space code contains some >> dual-licensed files and some GPLv2-only files, resulting in a kernel space >> product that is licensed GPLv2. All user space code, however, is dual >> licensed (GPLv2 and BSD).” == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Jan 23, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes
Unfortunately we do not yet have a complete answer. Below is the email from the RH lawyer, which was displayed during the XWG meeting, and briefly discussed. We will be clarifying: - his comments about GPLv2 (that being - he means GPL only, not dual license) - his reference to GPL (that being - he means GPLv2, as clarified above) - since the GPL files are all in the kernel, does user space remain un-tainted and therefore dual license - understand what more detail he needs to answer completely Once we feel comfortable with the full response, we will ask the OFA lawyer to confer/confirm since he is paid to represent us, and Richard is not. >> OFED is distributed as a source tarball - that tarball includes >> a >> small number files that are GPL only. >> Those GPL only files are all part of the rdma subsystem in the >> kernel. >> A few of those GPL only files are >required< to build a >> functioning >> OpenFabrics(-based) product. >> OFED builds the RDMA kernel subsystem code as loadable kernel >> modules, not statically linked into the kernel. >> >> Q1: If someone builds OFED for a Linux OS, as downloaded >> without >> any added files of their own creation, is the result GPL ? I think I would need to know more about what OFED consists of to answer this fully. But I would conclude that any kernelspace parts of OFED have to be licensed under GPLv2. >> Q2: If someone builds OFED for a Linux OS, including >> additional >> files/libraries that are dual licensed - is the result GPL ? Same answer as above. >> Q2A: Does the answer change depending on whether the >> additional >> files are source code or binary blobs ? Same answer as above. >> Q2B: Does the answer change depending on whether the dual- >> licensed >> files are built as loadable kernel modules or statically linked >> into the kernel ? No, I would not make a distinction along those lines. >> Q3: If someone builds OFED for a Linux OS without any of the >> GPL >> files, either by removing them from the build process or clean- >> rooming those files, is the result GPL ? Probably not, unless there is any other reason why what you're building is subject to the GPL (for example, suppose in clean-rooming a file the developer ends up copying some code from some GPL project). >> Q4: If someone downloads OFED, changes the kernel files to >> allow >> for use by an OS other than Linux and includes the GPL only >> files >> as part of the build for that non-Linux OS, is the result GPL ? I think I'd need more information to answer this (in particular I'd want to examine these particular kernel files which I haven't done), but I'd probably conclude that the result should be assumed to be GPL. Richard --- Richard Fontana Senior Commercial Counsel Red Hat == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Jan 23, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes
We have some answers from the RH lawyer and will discuss further at the XWG later today. > On Feb 8, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Davis, Arlin R wrote: > > > What is the status of GPL-only code that is in OFED-4.8? Are we able to > release? > OFA board is still discussing, we expect > approval/recommendations soon. Susan? Jim? > == Susan Coulter / HPC-DES Network Capability Lead (505) 667-8425 “Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right” Robert Hunter == ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
