updated for 1.5 alpha3

Signed-off-by: Tziporet Koren <tziporet@mellanox.co.il>

diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt
index 9d179994122bb55aed0c683f8064067cbcadefa1..2c6c62cb08dc15994373b15dfac3844d7b9377f4 100644 (file)
--- a/OFED_release_notes.txt
+++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
            Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-                     Version 1.5-alpha1
+                     Version 1.5-alpha3
                       Release Notes
                        July 2009
 
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ The OFED package contains the following components:
 
 Notes:
 1. iSER target is of Beta quality.
-2. NFS-RDMA is at Beta, thus it is not installed by default.
 2. All other OFED components are of production quality.
 3. See release notes for each package in the docs directory.
 4. Any Topspin copyright belongs to Cisco Systems, Inc.
@@ -71,24 +70,19 @@ Notes:
        - ia64
        
   o   Linux Operating Systems:
-        - RedHat EL4 up4:      2.6.9-42.ELsmp      *
-        - RedHat EL4 up5:      2.6.9-55.ELsmp
         - RedHat EL4 up6:      2.6.9-67.ELsmp 
         - RedHat EL4 up7:      2.6.9-78.ELsmp 
-        - RedHat EL5:          2.6.18-8.el5
-       - RedHat EL5 up1:       2.6.18-53.el5
+        - RedHat EL4 up8:      2.6.9-89.ELsmp 
        - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5       
        - RedHat EL5 up3:       2.6.18-128.el5
-        - Fedora C9:           2.6.25-14.fc9       *
-        - SLES10:              2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
-        - SLES10 SP1:          2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
        - SLES10 SP2:           2.6.16.60-0.21-smp  
        - SLES11:               2.6.27.19-5-default
        - OpenSuSE 10.3:        2.6.22.5-31         *
        - OEL 4 up7             2.6.9-78.ELsmp
        - OEL 5 up2             2.6.18-92.el5
        - CentOS5.2             2.6.18-92.el5
-       - kernel.org:           2.6.26 and 2.6.27
+       - CentOS5.3             2.6.18-128.el5
+       - kernel.org:           2.6.29 and 2.6.30
 
       * Minimal QA for these versions
        
@@ -131,7 +125,6 @@ well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
 ----------------------
 This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following
 companies:
-       - Cisco
        - Voltaire
        - Qlogic
        - Flextronics
@@ -156,93 +149,41 @@ are included in the OFED sources directory.
 For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
 
 ===============================================================================
-2. Main Changes from OFED 1.3
+2. Main Changes from OFED 1.4.1
 ===============================================================================
 Note: For details regarding the various changes,  please see the release notes
 for each package in the docs directory.
 
     2.1 General changes
-       o Kernel code based on 2.6.27
-       o Added iSER target package
-        o Added NFS-RDMA support - in technology preview state
-        o New verbs to support BMME: 
-          - Fast memory thru send queue
-          - Local invalidate send work requests
-          - Read with invalidate
-        o Multi-Protocol (Virtual Protocol Interconnect) support, Eth and IB 
-         for ConnectX. See mlx4_release note for the usage model.
-
-    2.2 IPoIB
-        o Datagram mode: Added LRO and LSO support
-
-    2.3 SDP
-       o GA level
-
-    2.4 qlgc_vnic
-        o Support for hotswap of EVIC and dynamic update of existing connections
-          with the addition of QLogic dynamic update daemon.
-        o Performance improvements in handling of Ethernet broadcast/multicast
-          traffic.
-
-    2.5 RDS
-       o GA of RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3
-
-    2.6 uDAPL
-       o Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with Windows
-       o Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only
-       o v1 library package has been renamed to compat-dapl-1.2.8-1
-
-    2.7 Management 
+       o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
+
+    2.2 SDP
+       o Performance improvements
+       o Zero copy in beta level
+
+    2.3 uDAPL
+        o ???
+
+    2.4 Management 
        o OpenSM
-         - Cashed routing
-         - Multi lid routing balancing for updn/minhop routing algorithms
-         - Preserve base lid routes when LMC > 0
-         - OpenSM configuration unification
-         - IPv6 Solicited Node Multicast addresses consolidation
-         - Routing Chaining
-         - Failover/Handover improvements: Query remote SMs during light sweep
-         - Ordered routing paths balancing
-       o ibutils:
-         - Report created in CSV format
+         - Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm.
+         - Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implemented)
+         - Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
+         - Weighted Lid Matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR).
+         - I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree).
+
        o Diagnostic tools:
-         - ibnetdiscover library - to accelerate another tools
 
-    2.9 MPI: 
+    2.5 MPI: 
+        For now same versions as in 1.4.1
        a. OSU MVAPICH 1.1.0
-          - eXtended Reliable Connection (XRC) support
-          - Lock-free design to provide support for asynchronous progress at 
-            both sender and receiver to overlap computation and communication
-          - Optimized MPI_allgather collective
-          - Efficient intra-node shared memory communication support for 
-            diskless clusters
-          - Enhanced Totalview Support with the new mpirun_rsh framework
-
-       b. Open MPI 1.2.8
-          - Bug fixes
-
+       b. Open MPI 1.3.2
        c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.2p1
-          - Scalable and robust daemon-less job startup
-          - Enhanced scalability for RDMA-based Direct One-sided communication
-            with less resources
-          - Checkpoint-Restart with Intra-node Shared Memory Support
-          - Multi-core optimized Collectives
-            - Shared memory optimized MPI_Bcast
-            - Optimized and tuned MPI_Alltoall
-           - Enhancement to Software Installation with Full Autoconf-based 
-            Configuration
-          - PLPA Support for affinity
-
        d. MPI tests:
-          - Updated IMB 3.1
-
-===============================================================================
-3. Main Changes from OFED 1.4.1
-===============================================================================
-
 
 
 ===============================================================================
-5. Known Issues
+3. Known Issues
 ===============================================================================
 The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
 components of the OFED 1.4 release.