Re: Infiniband driver

On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Timothy Legge wrote:
> As for what might be in 5.5 I defer to Marty.  I did not commit the  
> driver to that branch mostly becasue I forgot but I will leave that  
> for Marty or Michael to sync as work on that version continues...

Thanks Eli for the driver, and thanks to your company for releasing  
it under an OSI compatible license.

Michael has been traveling and busy, but should be returning soon,  
and has plans to do some interesting Etherboot hacking.  I've been  
waiting for his return to discuss 5.5 plans.  I'm sure the Infiniband  
driver will be in 5.5, though, as well as 5.4.2.

> I would expect that it would be released in EB 5.4.2 and the timing  
> depends on whether Marty feels there is enough added since 5.4.1 to  
> make a release.

This is something we need to discuss, and I'll briefly mention it  
here before starting another thread.

We have been gifted with a very nice patch from our old friend Klaus  
Espenlaub of Etherboot 5.1/5.2 fame. The patch is on SourceForge in  
patches, and fixes some bugs, and (among other things) enables the  
use of Etherboot 5.4 under VMWARE.

I was waiting for Michael to return to have him take a look at it and  
give feedback, but since he seems to be busy, I thought I'd mention  
it.  I'm sure much of it will find its way into 5.5.

Anyway, that's where we are at the moment.  More soon.

Marty




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