On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:42 AM, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > Hi Luben, > > > > OK, Man are you alright? > > > > I've heard of other vendors planning to > > provide solutions where sas is implemented > > in firmware, similar to MPT. Christophs > > sas layer is going to work with other > > solutions, don't think of it being > > MPT centric. > > Where in what I said above do I say that it will _not_ > work with _other_ MPT based drivers? Nowhere! > > Yes it _will_ work with other MPT-like drivers but > to cut and paste again from above: > * MPT based only, > * doesn't follow a spec to save its life, > * far inferior in SAS capabilities and SAS representation > again, due to the fact that it is MPT based. > > When I say MPT, I do not mean MPT(R), I mean MPT as > in technology, not as in trademark. > > Luben > Luben: I guess you didn't get what I meant. I was referring that there are other *vendors* (not LSI, e.g MegaRAID) that are working on sas solutions with sas firmware implementation. One that comes to mind is Intel SunRise Lake, which is non a MPT based solution, that would work with Christophs Sas Layer. There maybe others, such as emulex. Perhaps James S. could comment on that. Eric - : 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
