Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Version 3.2-rc1
+ Version 3.5-rc1
Release Notes
- June 2012
+ August 2012
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Table of Contents
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1. Overview, which includes:
- - OFED Distribution Rev 3.2 Contents
+ - OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
1. Overview
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These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-release 3.2. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
+release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
subnet or iWARP network.
all of its nodes to this new version.
-1.1 OFED 3.2 Contents
+1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
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The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
+ - RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- - kernel.org 3.0 - 3.2 *
+ - kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- - ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- - ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0000) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
+ - ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
+ - ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
+ - ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
1.5 Third Party Packages
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The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.2:
-- Open MPI, Version 1.4.5
-- Intel MPI, Version 4.0.3
+- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
+- Intel MPI - 4.0.3
+- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
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Linux:
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-URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.2.git
-Branch: for-ofed-3.2
+URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
+Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only.
- Based on v3.2. Used to shorten git clone time.
+ Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
-The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.2 mainline kernel. Its patches
+The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches
are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
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2. Change log
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-OFED-3.2-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
+OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
+2. Updated packages:
+ ibacm-1.0.7
+ librdmacm-1.0.16
+ dapl-2.0.36
+
+ Management:
+ libibumad-1.3.8
+ infiniband-diags-1.6.1
+ opensm-3.3.15
+
+3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
+
+OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
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1. Based on linux-3.2 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Known Issues
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The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
-components of the OFED 3.2-rc1 release.
+components of the OFED 3.5-rc1 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does
not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before
- upgrading to OFED 3.2 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
+ upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
system configuration.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that
is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
-6. On SLES11, and in case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
+6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
-7. On SLES11, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
+7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
load.