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Thursday December 16, 2004

OpenIB ready for inclusion

The OpenIB base codebase has been submitted for inclusion into the 2.6.11 branch of the Linux kernel.

This is the basic gen2 tree that has been developed over the past year or so through an open source process involving national labs and many vendors including TopSpin, Voltaire, Intel, IBM, Infinicon, Mellanox, and Sun.

The gen2 tree includes:

• mthca driver (InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter)
  • Mellanox tavor support
  • Mellanox arbel support (in tavor compat mode)
• middle layer software (abstraction of VAPI)
• One upper layer protocol: IPoIB

A discussion is underway both on the Linux Kernel Mailing List as well as on the OpenIB mailing list. If you have anything to say, please speak up. (2004-12-16 08:13:46.0) Permalink