Bug 332951

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Stephanie A. Glass <sglass&#64;us.ibm.com> - 2007-10-15 13:37 EDT
1. Feature Id 	201207
Feature Name 	Support Mellanox PCI-E 4x DDR Infiniband HCA on x/p Blades
Sponsor 	PPC
Category 	Device Drivers and IO
Request Type 	Driver - New from Upstream

2. Short Description 	A new driver - mlx4 - is required for supporting the new
Mellanox chipset on their PCI-E 4x DDR Infiniband adapter. This adapter is GAing
on Blades by 11/2007. The mlx4 driver has already been included and integrated
by the OFED community into the OFED 1.2.5 version. It is also expected to be in
kernel 2.6.24.
Architecture 	IA-64 	ppc64 	x86_64 	
Architecture Specific ? Purely Common Code	
Affects Toolchain ? no	
Affects Installer ? no	
Affects Desktop ? no	
Affects Core Kernel (not mod)? 	yes
Affects Kernel Module ? yes
	
3. Describe the Business Case 	This is to support the new Infiniband hardware
made available on Blades for better performance.
Performance Assistance Required? 	no
Benefits 	The adapter is to be supported through OFED 1.2.5 download in the
initial product offering. The integration with the Distro releases is desirable
for better customer deployment and services.
	
4. Sponsor Priority 	1
IBM Confidential 	no
Code Contribution ? 	3rd party code
Upstream Acceptance 	In Progress
Component Release Version Target 	OFED 1.2.5
Documentation Work 	yes
Delivery Mechanism 	Device Driver

5. Hardware ro Red Hat: Still to be determine

6. PM Contact: Josh Poulson, jrp.com, 360 857-5053

7. Technical Contact: Frank Lin, tsenglin.com, 512-838-8312