greg> Emulex responded back rather quickly which I took as interest in
greg> seeing a driver happen. This person indicated that they would send
greg> me their AIX source along with an NDA... :-(
greg> I responded back and indicated that I would have a problem with the
greg> NDA from the perspective of my university employment status as well
greg> as from a GPL point of view. My director thought it was a well
greg> formed reply but we haven't heard boo from them since.
greg> I am in a position where I can focus some resources on seeing a
greg> Fibre-Channel driver get done. We will have to see whether or not
greg> Emulex can play in the Open Source sandbox.
[i hadn't intended to respond to the whole list, but hadn't expectd this
much interest....]
as it turns out, i and two other students here at Worcester Polytech are
working on a driver for the Emulex LightPulse 6000 cards. we've got two
cards on loan from Clariion (the company sponsoring the project), a nice
little array to plug into it, and full docs for the card. none of us
signed any NDA's, and i can't find any such material on any of the docs
that i have from Emulex.
the driver we're working on ATM is intended just to drive Clariion arrays,
so it won't do any of the other fancy fibre channel stuff (IP, etc), but
once the project is over, we hope to keep the hardware at the school and
try and write a more flexible driver, in particular split up the various
bits (low-level drivers, ULP's) into seperate modules to make it easier to
extend the overall fibre channel support. if there's enough interest, i'll
send mail out to the kernel list when there's something sem-useable....
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