Re: apropos FibreChannel & Linux

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:44:02 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Davide Rossetti wrote:

> hi all,
> Here in my lab, we are developing a device driver for InterPhase 6526,
> HP Tachyon based FC card. I try to take QLogicFC as my reference driver.
> Of course it's somewhat hard as QLogicFC card seems to have straight
> support for SCSI->FCP translation. Instead, the HP Tachyon chip
> complexity is less masked by the PCI<->TSI(Tachyon System Interface)
> logic.
> now the questions:
> 1) it could be reasonable to create a mid/low layer FC driver
> architecture, as for SCSI, couldn't it be ?
> I know of "linux/drivers/fc4/*" but it seems too customized for the SUN
> card.

It's a start, and FCP services should probably grow from there.

> 2) is it instead meant that FC has to be under the SCSI layer ?
>

No. There should suport for arbitrary ULPs.

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