On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:52:22AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:16:05PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: > > So, now I have Linux installed. Next task: getting the fibre channel > > working. I'm currently digging through the configuration options on the > > kernel. (Downloaded 2.6.33.1 from kernel.org) I can't for the life of me > > find the Sun fibre channel driver. I could have sworn it was SOC or > > something like that... > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:46:56PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: > > Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is > > missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able > > to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, > > and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after > > make menuconfig. I can't find this driver in the newer kernels. Does > > anyone know what happened to it? Did it get merged in with another driver? > > > > I really want to get this A5000 working :) > > fc4 was removed in October 2007 with this commit: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1ecd3902c6e16c2445165b872c49e73770b72da7 Yep, I removed it. Resurrecting it will be quite a task. Best of luck. I'm willing to answer questions (please cc linux-scsi), but not do the work. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
