From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave C Boutcher Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> References: <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu> <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de> Reply-To: boutcher@cs.umn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linuxppc64-dev-bounces@ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc64-dev-bounces@ozlabs.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Vladislav Bolkhovitin Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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