Attendees Company Robert Woodruff Intel Arlin Davis Intel Vladimir Sokolovsky Mellanox Rupert Dance SW Forge Brenden Myers SW Forge Michal Kalderon Cavium
Minutes: * Opens o Discussed the need for Broadcom's new 25Gb/s driver for Spring interop/plug fest since it is not fully functional in 4.8-2. ? Can Broadcom maybe build an OFED-4.8-2+Broadcom-patches version if needed? o Discussed the need to clean up release notes before next release, need firm commitment. ? Arlin will work with Rupert on a first cut. * OFED 4.8-2 GA released! o http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-4.8-2/OFED-4.8-2.tgz o http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.8-2-release_notes * OFED-next decisions: o Kernel.org base - OFED-4.17 will be next release ? kernel.org 4.17-rc1 - expected mid-April; will delay the start of OFED-next ? Agree to pull from linux-next (linux-next-cherry-picks/linux-next-pending) if isolated to IHV driver. o New distro/backport support, last 2 ? RH EL7.4, RH7.5 ? SLES12.3 and SLES15 (~June 2018) ? Ubuntu support was mentioned * No plans unless someone steps up and commits to port and support. o Libraries/ULPs/Drivers to deprecate ? Xeon Phi o Libraries/ULPs/Drivers to add ? Huawei hns (Arlin to confirm with Huawei) ? Mellanox ConnectX5/6 ? Broadcom 25-100Gb/s Adapter ? FW upgrades o Libraries/utilities/ULPs to update ? Latest stable release of rdma-core (currently at v17) o Backport limitations for ulp and drivers (Arlin to reach out to maintainers for OFED-4.17 plans) ? NVMe-oF (no backports in OFED-4.8) ? i40iw (no backports in OFED-4.8) ? NFS-rdma (SLES12.2 and RH7.3 only) o OFED-next Release Schedule ? Goal for first RC - too soon to tell, summer 2018 ? Goal for GA - TBD * Align RC's with interop/plugfest if possible * If we move quickly, go ahead and release GA and align 4.17.1 with Fall interop event Regards, Arlin
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