Update for OFED 1.3 RC3

Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>

diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt
index 5e283c285e09910e1a74fe1d0b1e21684128a470..735ecd8ab04404cbe0332fbda2c696b464ca9f21 100644 (file)
--- a/OFED_release_notes.txt
+++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
            Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-                       Version 1.3-RC2
+                       Version 1.3-RC3
                        Release Notes
                        January 2008
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The OFED package contains the following components:
  - Documentation
 
 Notes:
-1. nes and cxgb3 drivers are in Beta quality.
+1. nes driver is in Beta quality.
 2. SRP target is in Beta quality.
 3. All other OFED components are of production quality.
 4. See release notes for each package in the docs directory.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications.
 
   o   Chelsio RNICs:
        - S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
-       - R310E 10GbE iWARP Adapters
+       - R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
 
   o   NetEffect RNICs:
         - NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ companies:
 
 1.5 Third Party Packages
 ------------------------
-The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.2:
+The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.3:
 1. Intel MPI, Version 3.0 - Package ID: l_mpi_p_3.0.043
 2. HP MPI, Version 2.2.5
 

diff --git a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
index 2346e891ddf8252125aa1a1965c3ac86d2035553..566967637c732e566d0e8cdac3bfbcf28f08caf7 100644 (file)
--- a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
+++ b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@
 
 Author: Steve Wise
 
-The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide iWARP and NIC support for the
-Chelsio S310, S320, and R310 adapters.  Make sure you choose the 'cxgb3'
-options when generating your ofed-1.3 rpms.
-
-This is a Beta Release.
+The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the
+Chelsio S310/320 and R310/320 series adapters.  Make sure you choose the
+'cxgb3' and 'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed-1.3 rpms.
 
 ============================================
 Loadable Module options:
@@ -58,7 +56,7 @@ msi             - whether to use MSI or MSI-X.  Default is 2.
 Updating Firmware:
 ============================================
 
-This release requires firmware version 4.6.x, and Protocol SRAM version
+This release requires firmware version 5.x, and Protocol SRAM version
 1.1.x.  This firmware can be downloaded from http://service.chelsio.com.
 
 If your distro/kernel supports firmware loading, you can place the
@@ -131,8 +129,18 @@ variable:
 
         export DAPL_MAX_INLINE=64
 
-2) If you have a multi-homed host and the physical ethernet networks are
-bridged, then you need to configure arp to only send replies on the 
-interface with the target ip address:
+2) If you have a multi-homed host and the physical ethernet networks
+are bridged, or if you have multiple chelsio rnics in the system, then
+you need to configure arp to only send replies on the interface with
+the target ip address:
 
         sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore=2
+
+3) If you are building OFED against a kernel.org kernel later than
+2.6.20, then make sure your kernel is configured with the cxgb3 and
+iw_cxgb3 modules enabled.  This forces the kernel to pull in the genalloc
+allocator, which is requried for the OFED iw_cxgb3 module.  Make sure
+these config options are included in your .config file:
+
+CONFIG_CHELSIO_T3=m
+CONFIG_INFINIBAND_CXGB=m