From: Dave C Boutcher <sleddog@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500 > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Dave C Boutcher wrote: > > > This device driver provides the SCSI target side of the "virtual > > > SCSI" on IBM Power5 systems. The initiator side has been in mainline > > > for a while now (drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c.) Targets already > > > exist for AIX and OS/400. > > > > Please try to integrate that with the generic scsi target framework at > > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt/. > > There hasn't been a lot of forward progress on stgt in over a year, and > there were some issues (lack of scatterlist support, synchronous and > serial command execution) that were an issue when last I looked. The generic scsi target framework (stgt) is not SCST (that Vlad has maintained). It is the project that Mike Christie and I started last month. We discussed it with Christoph and decided that it would be better to start from scratch because of the design differences. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
