Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:33:41AM -0600, Moore, Eric wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2007 10:18 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Sounds like we need a new driver written to support the FC909 then.
Unless we could pretend the FC909 is a parallel scsi card or something
... that wasn't quite clear from Michael's mail.
ok, are you suggesting for FC909 we call scsi_scan_host, else chips we
"hook into transport layer"?
Yes. That reminds me, I need to convert fusion to the parallel scanning
regime. I haven't forgotten our conversation at OLS2006.
The way I understood from Stephen Shirron, is the FC909 is using mpi
version 1.0, and all the other FC cards are on mpi version 1.2 or 1.5.
The mpi defines the interface between driver and firmware. The older
mpi version 1.0 is missing feature needed for the FC transport to work.
That sounds plausible.
Thank you a lot for your infos. You writes that this card isn't any more
supported.
What's suspectfor me is why the fc909 is still listed on the Kconfig as
supported controller. I request this lsi909 card 8 mnoth ago. This was a
new card and the seller told me that this card was often sold and he had
also a lot of this cards allways in his stock. (maybe i' m the first
user of this card which shuold run with linux ;-) ..
You wrote any changes which must be done to support this card with the
current kernel. Is this a lot of work for you?
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