On Sat, 19 May 2007, Johan Kragsterman wrote: > Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> Skrev: > > > >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". Matthew's driver works on a variety of *nix platforms which QLogic does not provide drivers for -- *BSD varients, etc. He also has a fine target-mode driver which others can reference. > In what way is Qlogic interested in helping the community with providing > open firmware, We've worked with various members of the open-source community to address some of licensing issues. At this stage we provide firmware-blobs for all our ISPs under the (3 clause) BSD license: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/ Firmware specifications are still tightly circulated. > drivers and tools? If there's some specific OS's and 'tools' you'd like to see more work on from QLogic, then I can forward your request up-the-chain. -- Andrew Vasquez - 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
