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Current status of OFED support

Taras_Shapovalov — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:53:53 GMT

Hello,

Could you please provide us with some matrix: what OFED should be used for what OS distribution in case of the latest MPSS (3.5.2, linux)? We need to know in what cases MPSS supports the OFED and in what cases better to use alternative OFED distribution.

Best regards,

Taras

Hi Taras,

Loc_N_Intel — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:43:28 GMT

Hi Taras,

The Section 3.6.1 "Supported OFED distros" in the MPSS User's Guide shows that information. Thanks.

Hi loc-nguyen,

Taras_Shapovalov — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:59:13 GMT

Hi loc-nguyen,

Unfortunately, the section does not include the information I am looking for. The matrix in the section shows what modes the OFED stacks support. I asked "What OS each OFED supports" regarding MPSS 3.5.2. For example the answer could be "RHEL 6.5 supports X1, X2 and X3 OFED versions, RHEL7.0 supports only Y1 OFED version", and so on.

This statement from the section makes the things even more unclear:

"Each OFED distribution supports a subset of the Intel ® MPSS supported OS distros; most support SLES 11 SP 3 and RHEL 6.2/3/4/5."

Best regards,

Hi Taras,

Loc_N_Intel — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:35:39 GMT

Hi Taras,

Based on the information in MPSS User Guide (3.5.2), I downloaded OFED stacks and checked the corresponding release notes:

1. OFED+:

OFED+ supports all MPSS-supported versions of RHEL*5 and all MPSS-supported versions of SLES* 11.

2. OFED-1.5.4.1:

RedHat EL5 up6 2.6.18-238.el5
RedHat EL5 up7 2.6.18-274.el5
RedHat EL6 2.6.32-71.el6
RedHat EL6.1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
SLES10 SP4 2.6.16.60-0.85.1-smp
SLES11 2.6.27.19-5-default
SLES11 SP1 2.6.32.12-0.7-default
Scientific Linux 6.1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
kernel.org 2.6.30 - 3.1 *

3. OFED-3.5.2-MIC:

RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
RedHat EL6.4 2.6.32-358.el6
RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6
RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.el7 *
SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.11-default *

4. OFED-3.12-1:

RedHat EL6.4 2.6.32-358.el6
RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6
RedHat EL6.6 2.6.32-494.el6
RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.4.4
SLES12 3.12.28-4.6
SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1
kernel.org 3.12 *

5. OFED-3.18:

RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6
RedHat EL6.6 2.6.32-504.el6
RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.el7
RedHat EL7.1 3.10.0-229.el7
SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1
SLES12 3.12.28-4
kernel.org 3.18 *

5. Mellanox OFED 2.1, 2.2, 2.3-1.0.1:

See link http://www.mellanox.com/page/mlnx_ofed_matrix?mtag=linux_sw_drivers

Hi loc-nguyen,

Taras_Shapovalov — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:35:09 GMT

Hi loc-nguyen,

Thanks you! This is what I was looking for.