A phone meeting of the TIPC working group was held on November 29, 2007. Attendees:
Al Stephens (Wind River) -- meeting chair; Elmer Horvath (Wind River); Jon Maloy (Ericsson); Randy Macleod (Nortel); Laurent Ganne (Sun); Khoushik Ghosh (Sun); Luc Chouinard (TruePosition); Yuan Song (TruePosition) Minutes: 1. Meeting opening The meeting was called to order at 11:05 AM (EST). 2. TIPC on Solaris Newcomers to the working group having an interest in TIPC on Solaris introduced themselves. The Sun and TruePosition representatives have related interests in utilizing TIPC as a means of enabling high availability communication middleware (such as OpenClovis, OpenSAF, OpenAIS, etc.) which build upon TIPC. Laurent is investigating porting TIPC to OpenSolaris. He requires the TIPC socket API, since that is what OpenClovis uses. Koushik is looking into porting TIPC to Solaris 10 u4. Adding the socket API here may be more difficult than in OpenSolaris, as it requires kernel modifications. Koushik may be able to get by with only the TIPC native API (at least to start), since he is doing kernel-only work. The TruePosition reps are interested in using TIPC on Solaris 10; they appear to need the socket API so that they can use OpenClovis. They would like to have something to use in the next 6 months, with their fully finished product shipping in a considerably longer timeframe; this seems to align with the schedule of the Sun reps, who are trying to get an initial versions of TIPC running in about 3 months. Luc and Koushik inquired about the availability of information on porting TIPC to a new operating system. Al agreed to post some updated instructions to provide guidance; Elmer also agreed to provide them with the latest version of TIPC on VxWorks upon request, since it isn't yet available on the TIPC website. Al and Elmer also agreed to post an updated version of the portable TIPC test suite on the website, which they have been using to verify the behavior of both the Linux and VxWorks versions of TIPC 1.7.5; it will require a small amount of wrapper routine porting to make it useable on Solaris. There was discussion about the delivery mechanism for the Solaris ports of TIPC. Laurent will create a new project under OpenSolaris for his port; Koushik's environment is to be determined. Al volunteered space under the main TIPC site on SourceForge to hold any tarballs created by Laurent and Koushik, and will provide links to their projects when requested. 3. TIPC development update Al reported that Wind River management has yet to close on resourcing for TIPC 1.7 integration into the Linux kernel. The good news is that resourcing will be provided; the bad news is we don't know who or when. Randy reported that he and Ravi Rao are close to releasing a tarball containing Linux TIPC 1.5.12 patches to support multiple TIPC stacks on a single node (aka TIPC virtualization). 4. TIPC master's thesis topic selection Al asked for opinions in suggesting a TIPC-related Master's thesis topic to Martin Peylo, who is interested in doing work of this nature. It was agreed that the topic of "TIPC support for WAN environments" would be the best choice, as it has been requested by users a number of times in the past but never really investigated. This work will look into the use of TCP (and possibly UDP) as a means of supporting TIPC links over the WAN; Randy also suggested that other protocols be considered, such as DCCP. Al will provide input to Martin, and will ask him to announce his intentions to the TIPC community once he has got approval from his supervisor. 5. Meeting close The meeting adjourned at 12 noon. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 20th at 11:00 AM EST. *** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE FROM THE NORMAL "LAST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH" SCHEDULE *** Please let me know of any errors or omissions. Regards, Al Stephens TIPC WG Chair [END] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ tipc-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tipc-discussion
