Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-18 Thread Tziporet Koren
Todd Rimmer wrote: Here is the change needed to mvapich as included in OFED 1.4.1 However end users will need some notice to rebuild their apps. Especially ISVs. I'm not sure what the OFED policy is for ABI changes, but at least 1-2 year notice seems the minimum (in QLogic's past efforts we

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Rimmer
From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:sashakv...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sasha Khapyorsky Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:32 AM To: Todd Rimmer Cc: Tziporet Koren; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last On 08:14 Wed 17 Jun , Todd Rimmer wrote

Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-16 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Hi Tziporet, On 13:03 Sun 14 Jun , Tziporet Koren wrote: I send this to Sasha who is the management maintainer Only he can decide if to bring libibcommon back to life I think the status of libibcommon as non-public library was discussed many times (as well as its removal). Personally I

Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-14 Thread Tziporet Koren
Todd Rimmer wrote: I beg to differ. I downloaded OFED 1.4.1 and it includes mvapich-1.1.0-3355.src.rpm Looking in that rpm, the mvapich.spec file requires ibcommon and uses it. If I build any apps with that version of mvapich, the apps end up with ibcommon in their ldd dependencies. At a

Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-11 Thread Jeff Squyres
Given the discussion and confusion about this file, perhaps that text file should be expanded and explained a bit more...? Two quick suggestions: - explain what is meant by public/private/private but used - it might be good to have at least one-liner summaries of what each library is/is

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-11 Thread Todd Rimmer
todd.rim...@qlogic.com www.QLogic.com -Original Message- From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tzipo...@dev.mellanox.co.il] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:15 AM To: Todd Rimmer Cc: ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last Todd Rimmer wrote

Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-11 Thread Tziporet Koren
Jeff Squyres wrote: Given the discussion and confusion about this file, perhaps that text file should be expanded and explained a bit more...? Two quick suggestions: - explain what is meant by public/private/private but used - it might be good to have at least one-liner summaries of what

Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-11 Thread Tziporet Koren
Todd Rimmer wrote: You are correct and this is actually old link. MPI will not use it in 1.5, since libibcommon was removed from the new management tree. I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. It's good that MPI in 1.5 will not use it. libibcommon was removed from the new

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-11 Thread Todd Rimmer
: Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last Todd Rimmer wrote: You are correct and this is actually old link. MPI will not use it in 1.5, since libibcommon was removed from the new management tree. I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. It's good that MPI in 1.5