Updated OFED_release_notes and others for OFED 3.12-1 GA

diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt
index c927daccb0baf9b523d7acf7d070f1bc07a3d05f..18f0975cdb4236d2979b41cd0a6a84b3bf50a02c 100644 (file)
--- a/OFED_release_notes.txt
+++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
            Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
                  Version 3.12-1 Release Notes
-                          October 2014
+                          January 2015
 
 ===============================================================================
 Table of Contents
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ The OFED package contains the following components:
        - RedHat EL6.5          2.6.32-431.el6
        - RedHat EL6.6          2.6.32-494.el6
        - RedHat EL7.0          3.10.0-123.4.4
+       - SLES12                3.12.28-4.6 
        - SLES11 SP3            3.0.76-0.9.1
        - kernel.org            3.12    *
 
@@ -202,6 +203,18 @@ http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
 ===============================================================================
 2. Change log
 ===============================================================================
+OFED-3.12-1-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc3
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+1. Updated packages:
+    - compat-rdma
+       IB/qib: streamline qib xeon-phi patches
+       qib add RHEL7 support
+       RDMA/nes: Fix for register mr with zero length
+    - ofed-scripts
+       install.pl: Build intel-mic-psm as needed
+       uninstall.sh: Replaced by perl script
+       install.pl: Remove kernel version check for qib/ipathverbs
+
 OFED-3.12-1-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc2
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. Add support for the OSes
@@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ OFED-3.12-1-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc1
         xeon-phi: remove bogus comment in compat-rdma.spec
         xeon-phi: updates to ibp_server
         xeon-phi: updated technology preview for ibscif
-        RDMA/ocrdma: Add a fix for mmaping kernel mem to user
+        RDMA/ocrdma: Add a fix for mapping kernel mem to user
         cxgb4: GRO busted in sles/rhel backports.
         cxgb4: Fix vlan support in sles and rhel backport.
         add missing docs directory
@@ -273,12 +286,16 @@ components of the OFED 3.12-1 release.
 07. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
     /etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
     load.
-08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.
-09. Newer SLES or RHEL patch kernels that are updates to the original kernel that is included in the
-    original SLES or RHEL distibutions may not work with OFED-3.12. The list of kernels that are supported are listed in
-    section 1.2.
-10. There are two known issues with NFSoRDMA that are documented in bugs 2489 and 2507. 
-    The issue have been resolved in kernel 3.17 rc6 but has not been backported to OFED 3.12-1.
+08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any Distro OS.
+09. Newer SLES or RHEL patch kernels that are updates to the original kernel that 
+    is included in the original SLES or RHEL distributions may not work with 
+    OFED-3.12-1.  The list of kernels that are supported are listed in section 1.2.
+10. There are a few known issues with NFSoRDMA that are documented in bugs 2489 
+    and 2507. We believe the issues have been resolved in kernel 3.18 but the 
+    backports have not been applied to OFED 3.12-1.
+11. Bug 2515: when an Intel HCA is attached directly to a Mellanox ConnectX3
+    and the OpenSM is started on the Inetl HCA, the link will not go to active.
+    The workaround is to start the OpenSM on the Mellanox HCA.
 
 Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
 

diff --git a/OFED_tips.txt b/OFED_tips.txt
index 945ee0a905ac4ec4a5d6898e6a0c66794cf1a2c4..8df18394b08665f467b6cea393dc9c0cb7fc8252 100644 (file)
--- a/OFED_tips.txt
+++ b/OFED_tips.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
                Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-                     Tips for Working with OFED 3.12
-                            May 2014
+                     Tips for Working with OFED 3.12-1
+                            January 2015
 
 ===============================================================================
 Table of Contents
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Table of Contents
 1. OFED Utilities
 2. Debug HOWTOs
 3. Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages
-4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12
+4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12-1
 5. Adding vendor specific actions to the installation of OFED
 6. How to compile OFED sources manually
 
@@ -182,17 +182,17 @@ c. Using sysfs file system
 -------------------------------------------
 The text file BUILD_ID provides data on all OFED components (whether installed
 or not). This file is a part of the ofed-docs RPM and installed under
-/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-3.12 on RedHat, and under
-/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.12 on SuSE.
+/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-3.12-1 on RedHat, and under
+/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.12-1 on SuSE.
 
 The same information can be obtained by executing the 'ofed_info' command. For
 example:
 
 # ofed_info -s
-OFED-3.12:
+OFED-3.12-1:
 
 # ofed_info
-OFED-3.12-rc2:
+OFED-3.12-1:
 
 compat-rdma:
 git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git master
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ commit b03e0663469816ab598a7d2a76eee9ff34214305
 
 compat-rdma:
 linux:
-git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12.git master
+git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12-1.git master
 commit f9e99187aaf53533d86c864e4abc9b6073ffa588
 
 compat-rdma:
@@ -218,9 +218,9 @@ For example:
 
 # /etc/infiniband/info
 prefix=/usr
-Kernel=2.6.32_358.el6.x86_64
+Kernel=2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
 
-Configure options: --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-cxgb3-mod --with-cxgb4-mod --with-nes-mod --with-qib-mod --with-ipoib-mod --with-srp-mod
+Configure options: --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-mlx5-mod --with-cxgb3-mod --with-cxgb4-mod --with-nes-mod --with-qib-mod --with-ocrdma-mod --with-ipoib-mod --with-srp-mod --with-iser-mod --with-nfsrdma-mod
 
 2.3 Building/Installing InfiniBand (IB) Modules With Debug Information
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Note: The file /etc/security/limits.conf contains further documentation.
 
 
 ===============================================================================
-4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12
+4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12-1
 ===============================================================================
 
 To build kernel modules depending on OFED's modules, take the Modules.symvers
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Example:
 MODULES_DIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates ./create_Module.symvers.sh
 
 See "Module versioning & Module.symvers" in the modules.txt from kernel
-documentation (e.g. linux-3.12/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt).
+documentation (e.g. linux-3.12-1/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt).
 
 Example of the Makefile:
 obj-m += rdma_krping.o
@@ -409,11 +409,11 @@ meaning without building the RPMs and without using the install.pl script.
 
 6.1 Compiling the kernel modules
 --------------------------------
-1. tar xzf OFED-3.12.tgz
-2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.12/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.12-OFED.3.12.src.rpm
+1. tar xzf OFED-3.12-1.tgz
+2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.12-1/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.12-1-OFED.3.12-1.src.rpm
 3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
-4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.12.tgz
-5. cd compat-rdma-3.12
+4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.12-1.tgz
+5. cd compat-rdma-3.12-1
 6. configure:
    run ./configure --help for a list of options.
    basic invocation is:
@@ -428,18 +428,18 @@ NOTES:
 
 6.2 Compiling the user space libraries
 --------------------------------------
-To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.12 manually,
+To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.12-1 manually,
 do the following:
 
 Example for libibverbs:
  
-1. tar xzf OFED-3.12.tgz
-2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.7-1.src.rpm
+1. tar xzf OFED-3.12-1.tgz
+2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.8-1.src.rpm
 3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (for RedHat)
    or
    cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (for SuSE)
-4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.7.tgz
-5. cd libibverbs-1.1.7
+4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.8-1.tgz
+5. cd libibverbs-1.1.8-1
 6. ./configure (specify parameters, if required)
 7. make
 8. make install

diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index ba49ab3c44d2cd798718ba8d1b50b5c901512707..7eb19163e8f4f8fedc79d945a6b8c19c584fa409 100644 (file)
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
             Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-                       Version 3.12 README
-                          October 2014
+                       Version 3.12-1 README
+                          January 2015
 
 ==============================================================================
 Table of contents
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Table of contents
 1. Overview
 ==============================================================================
 
-This is the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 3.12
+This is the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 3.12-1
 software package supporting InfiniBand, iWARP and RoCE fabrics. It is composed
 of several software modules intended for use on a computer cluster
 constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or an iWARP network.