Hello Alex, Alex Leung wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > On Sunday, August 10, 2014 3:57 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > > Alex Leung wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 3:18 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello Alex, > > > > > > > > Alex Leung wrote: > > > > > On Monday, August 04, 2014 3:08 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > > > > > > Hello Nicholas, > > > > > > > > > > > > few years ago you had WIP code for lpfc TM / tcm_lpfc. > > > > > > Any plans to resurrect it? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > > > > > > > If it's an option for you, our OneCore Storage SDK is available on > > > > > the Emulex developer portal -- you'll need to sign up to get access. > > > > > (http://my.emulex.com/products/onecore-storage-sdk/). Version > > > > > 5.2 of the SDK should be available any day now. It contains an > > > > > LIO/TCM driver in Tech Preview that has been tested with the 3.15 > > > > > kernel. > > > > > > > > AFAIK the OCS SDK drivers are proprietary and only support SLI-4. > > > > Unfortunately I got 8 GBit SLI-3 HBAs. Is it possible to upgrade those > > > > from SLI-3 to SLI-4? > > > > Does the new version change anything regarding licensing or SLI support? > > > > > > > > > > You're correct on both. However, this will change to an MIT like > > > license in our next release (though still not GPL). Does that change > > > anything for you? > > > > do you know whether this MIT like license will be GPL compatible? > > TBD. It's an outstanding question that we are discussing at this point. > GPL compatible is a must then for you? I think legal "uncertainties" could be avoided if the driver would be GPL compatible (Dual MIT/GPL). It should allow upstream inclusion and Linux distributions could pick it up. The driver would no longer taint the kernel or invalidate support contracts. > > > > > And I'm afraid you cannot upgrade an SLI-3 HBA > > > to SLI-4. 8G SLI-4 HBAs are available, however. > > > > Are there any options for target mode with SLI-3 HBAs beside lpfc_scst? > > > > Not at this point. If there were a compelling opportunity to support > SLI-3 with our OneCore Storage SDK drivers, we might consider that. > At this point, our SLI-4 opportunities are keeping us more than busy. Making your existing customers happy could be such an opportunity ;) None of the three server vendors I checked did offer Advanced-8 8GB HBAs. The QLogic driver on the other hand still supports my old 4GB HBA. > Thanks, > Alex Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
