Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> Skrev: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, Johan Kragsterman wrote: > >> >Most probably, the driver by link sent by Matthew Jacob will be a good >> >starting point, where you can see examples how to work with the card, so > >> >you can add it to the qla2x00t driver. Also you will need a manual the >> >firmware interface specification for 2400 series of the cards. It is >> >under NDA, but you maybe lucky to get one from QLogic. Feel free to ask > >> >me any SCST or qla2x00t driver related questions. >> > >> >> I have adequate experience of programming in the SCSI domain, however >i >> >> am not much conversant with the QLA driver code. >> >> That´s a very nice initiativ! Though I believe the most important target >> driver to develope is one for a PCI-Express HBA. I believe QLA24xx >stands >> for PCI-X, doesn´t it? And the PCI-Express HBA is called QLE-something? >But >> maybe with this driver we will come closer to a PCI-Express HBA target >> driver? > >QLogic doesn't formally release target-mode drivers for their ISP >chips. Matthew J. has done a great job at providing a community >available souce-base from which to draw ideas and code from. > >Regards, >Andrew Vasquez > > So, Andrew, do you officially represent Qlogic? If so, your point of view here is interesting, since you seem to consider that: "Matthew J. has done a great job at providing a community available souce-base from which to draw ideas and code from". In what way is Qlogic interested in helping the community with providing open firmware, drivers and tools? Rgrds Johan - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
