Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Version 3.5-1 Release Notes
+ Version 3.5-2 Release Notes
September 2013
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- - OFED Distribution Rev 3.5-1 Contents
+ - OFED Distribution Rev 3.5-2 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-release 3.5-1. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
+release 3.5-2. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
Fabric, an iWARP Network or a RoCE Fabric.
all of its nodes to this new version.
-1.1 OFED 3.5-1 Contents
+1.1 OFED 3.5-2 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- RedHat EL6.4 2.6.32-358.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
+ - SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
-The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5-1:
-- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
-- Intel MPI - 4.1
-- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
+The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5-2:
+- Open MPI - 1.6.4
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
2. Change log
===============================================================================
-OFED-3.5-1 Main Changes from OFED 3.5
+OFED-3.5-2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-1 and OFED 3.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-1. Added support for:
- - RHEL 6.4
+1. Add support for the OSes
+ - RedHat EL6.4
+ - SLES11 SP3
+2. Removed pacckage
+ - compat-dapl
+3. Updated packages:
+ - dapl-2.0.38
+ - ibacm-1.0.8
+ - infiniband-diags-1.6.2
+ - libcxgb4-1.3.0
+ - libibmad-1.3.10
+ - libibverbs-1.1.7
+ - libmlx4-1.0.5
+ - libmthca-1.0.6
+ - librdmacm-1.0.17
+ - mstflint-3.0-0.6
+ - opensm-3.3.16
+ - perftest-2.0-0.58
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
-components of the OFED 3.5-1 release.
+components of the OFED 3.5-2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does
not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Tips for Working with OFED 3.5-1
-
+ Tips for Working with OFED 3.5-2
September 2013
===============================================================================
1. OFED Utilities
2. Debug HOWTOs
3. Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages
-4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.5-1
+4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.5-2
5. Adding vendor specific actions to the installation of OFED
6. How to compile OFED sources manually
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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-3.5-1 on RedHat, and under
-/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.5-1 on SuSE.
+/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-3.5-2 on RedHat, and under
+/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.5-2 on SuSE.
The same information can be obtained by executing the 'ofed_info' command. For
example:
# ofed_info -s
-OFED-3.5-1:
-
-compat-dapl:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl/compat-dapl-1.2.19.tar.gz
+OFED-3.5-2:
compat-rdma:
git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git master
commit d8f006ab216ec54eca367aacd2d658b6a740c076
dapl:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl/dapl-2.0.36.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/dapl/dapl-2.0.38.tar.gz
ib-bonding:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ib-bonding/ib-bonding-0.9.0-43.src.rpm
ibacm:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/ofed/ibacm-1.0.7.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/ibacm-1.0.8.tar.gz
ibsim:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibsim/ibsim-0.5-0.1.g327c3d8.tar.gz
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a.tar.gz
infiniband-diags:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/infiniband-diags-1.6.1.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/infiniband-diags-1.6.2.tar.gz
infinipath-psm:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/infinipath-psm/infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open.tar.gz
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/cxgb3/libcxgb3-1.3.1.tar.gz
libcxgb4:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/cxgb4/libcxgb4-1.2.0.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/cxgb4/libcxgb4-1.3.0.tar.gz
libehca:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/libehca/libehca-1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88.tar.gz
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/libibcm-1.0.5.tar.gz
libibmad:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/libibmad-1.3.9.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/libibmad-1.3.10.tar.gz
libibumad:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/libibumad-1.3.8.tar.gz
libibverbs:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/verbs/libibverbs-1.1.6.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/verbs/libibverbs-1.1.7.tar.gz
libipathverbs:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/libipathverbs/libipathverbs-1.2.tar.gz
libmlx4:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mlx4/libmlx4-1.0.4.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mlx4/libmlx4-1.0.5.tar.gz
libmthca:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mthca/libmthca-1.0.6.tar.gz
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/nes/libnes-1.1.3.tar.gz
librdmacm:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/librdmacm-1.0.16.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/librdmacm-1.0.17.tar.gz
mstflint:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mstflint/mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mstflint/mstflint-3.0-0.6.g6961daa.tar.gz
ofed-docs:
-git://beany.openfabrics.org/~rupertd/docs/.git ofed_3_5
-commit 8cc35ac211de682e6734c3f1ffb13d7fbb62f1d5
+git_url="git://beany.openfabrics.org/~rupertd/docs/.git"
opensm:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/opensm-3.3.15.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/opensm-3.3.16.tar.gz
perftest:
-http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/perftest/perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a.tar.gz
+http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/perftest/perftest-2.0-0.58.gcf63bcd.tar.gz
qlvnictools:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/qlvnictools/qlvnictools-0.0.1-0.1.ge27eef7.tar.gz
===============================================================================
-4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.5-1
+4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.5-2
===============================================================================
To build kernel modules depending on OFED's modules, take the Modules.symvers
6.1 Compiling the kernel modules
--------------------------------
-1. tar xzf OFED-3.5-1.tgz
-2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.5-1/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.5-OFED.3.5.src.rpm
+1. tar xzf OFED-3.5-2.tgz
+2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.5-2/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.5-OFED.3.5.src.rpm
3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
-4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.5-1.tgz
-5. cd compat-rdma-3.5-1
+4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.5-2.tgz
+5. cd compat-rdma-3.5-2
6. configure:
run ./configure --help for a list of options.
basic invocation is:
6.2 Compiling the user space libraries
--------------------------------------
-To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.5-1 manually,
+To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.5-2 manually,
do the following:
Example for libibverbs:
-1. tar xzf OFED-3.5-1.tgz
-2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.6-1.src.rpm
+1. tar xzf OFED-3.5-2.tgz
+2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.7.src.rpm
3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (for RedHat)
or
cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (for SuSE)
-4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.6.tgz
-5. cd libibverbs-1.1.6
+4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.7.tgz
+5. cd libibverbs-1.1.7
6. ./configure (specify parameters, if required)
7. make
8. make install