Re: ehca driver status?

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On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:46:48 -0700
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Hoang-Nam, hi Christoph, hi Alexander,
> 
> do you know what the current state of the eHCA driver and hardware is?
> 
> The driver hasn't seen any targeted updats since 2010, so we wonder if
> it's still alive?  It's one of the few drivers not supporting FRWRs,
> and it's also really odd in that it has its own dma_map_ops
> implementation that seems to pass virtual addresses to the hardware
> (or probably rather firmware), getting in the way of at least two
> currently pending cleanups.
> 

Hi Christoph,

I'll try to find out if we still need the device driver in the
kernel tree. It will take 2-3 weeks because the key people are on
vacation right now, but I'll get back to you.

Regards,
Alex

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