Re: Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.

[Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>]

You typically have to sign an NDA for such information :-(.

It's really not all that hard to support the older chips though. A more
crucial piece of information is the chip errata- issues like the first
cut of the 1080 chip not working with Seagate drives but with Quantum
and IBM drives- those pieces of info are very hard to get ahold of.

Personally, *I* care about the older chipsets. I *do* support them in my
somewhat problematic linux driver. I also have active target mode
support in a number of contexts for them because I actually *do* have
people who still need this support.

This is also a non-PCI issue as there are still boatloads of the ISP1000
SBus cards out there as well.



On Mon, 12 May 2003, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 14:00, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> > Unfortunately, no.  QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all
> > parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
>
> Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips
> electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
>
> At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports elicit
> sympathy but not much else.
>
> James
>
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