From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: An fc4 user appears Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:49:52 -0600 Message-ID: <20100318184952.GB3875@parisc-linux.org> References: <17772.86388.qm@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <876254.4671.qm@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100317095222.GA16828@orion.carnet.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:50270 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751923Ab0CRStx (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:49:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100317095222.GA16828@orion.carnet.hr> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Josip Rodin Cc: Mr Ian Primus , debian-sparc@lists.debian.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:49:52 +0000 Subject: An fc4 user appears Message-Id: <20100318184952.GB3875@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <17772.86388.qm@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <876254.4671.qm@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100317095222.GA16828@orion.carnet.hr> In-Reply-To: <20100317095222.GA16828@orion.carnet.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Josip Rodin Cc: Mr Ian Primus , debian-sparc@lists.debian.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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;hcd3902c6e16c2445165b872c49e73770b72da7 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."