From: Dave C Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> > This device driver provides the SCSI target side of the "virtual
> > SCSI" on IBM Power5 systems. The initiator side has been in mainline
> > for a while now (drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c.) Targets already
> > exist for AIX and OS/400.
>
> Please try to integrate that with the generic scsi target framework at
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt/.
There hasn't been a lot of forward progress on stgt in over a year, and
there were some issues (lack of scatterlist support, synchronous and
serial command execution) that were an issue when last I looked.
Vlad, can you comment on the state of stgt and whether you see it
being ready for mainline any time soon?
--
Dave Boutcher
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From: Dave C Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>,
Linda Xie <lxiep@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> > This device driver provides the SCSI target side of the "virtual
> > SCSI" on IBM Power5 systems. The initiator side has been in mainline
> > for a while now (drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c.) Targets already
> > exist for AIX and OS/400.
>
> Please try to integrate that with the generic scsi target framework at
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt/.
There hasn't been a lot of forward progress on stgt in over a year, and
there were some issues (lack of scatterlist support, synchronous and
serial command execution) that were an issue when last I looked.
Vlad, can you comment on the state of stgt and whether you see it
being ready for mainline any time soon?
--
Dave Boutcher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 21:28 [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-07 2:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2005-09-07 14:57 ` Santiago Leon
2005-09-13 15:00 ` Anton Blanchard
2005-09-07 10:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-07 12:45 ` Dave C Boutcher [this message]
2005-09-07 12:45 ` Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-07 12:58 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2005-09-07 17:17 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 17:48 ` remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6) Steve Byan
2005-09-07 17:04 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Mike Christie
2005-09-07 18:47 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2005-09-07 18:56 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 20:07 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR/SCST 0.9.3-pre1 published Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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