* Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
@ 2003-05-11 2:45 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-05-12 19:00 ` Andrew Vasquez
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From: Xose Vazquez Perez @ 2003-05-11 2:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-scsi
Andrew Vasquez wrote:
>QLogic is pleased to announce the availability of a completely new
>version of the QLogic FC driver (8.00.00b1) for its
>ISP21xx/ISP22xx/ISP23xx chips and HBAs. Our desire
hi,
Are you going to update too the very ancient qla1280 driver/firmware ?
-thanks-
regards,
--
Galiza nin perdoa nin esquence. Governo demision!
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* Re: Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
2003-05-11 2:45 Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available Xose Vazquez Perez
@ 2003-05-12 19:00 ` Andrew Vasquez
2003-05-12 19:40 ` James Bottomley
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Vasquez @ 2003-05-12 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-scsi
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> >QLogic is pleased to announce the availability of a completely new
> >version of the QLogic FC driver (8.00.00b1) for its
> >ISP21xx/ISP22xx/ISP23xx chips and HBAs. Our desire
>
> hi,
>
> Are you going to update too the very ancient qla1280 driver/firmware ?
>
Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all
parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
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* Re: Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
2003-05-12 19:00 ` Andrew Vasquez
@ 2003-05-12 19:40 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-12 21:37 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Jes Sorensen
2003-05-13 21:04 ` Matthew Jacob
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: James Bottomley @ 2003-05-12 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Vasquez; +Cc: linux-scsi
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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* Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
2003-05-12 19:40 ` James Bottomley
@ 2003-05-12 21:37 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-05-12 23:50 ` Andrew Vasquez
2003-05-13 21:04 ` Matthew Jacob
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jes Sorensen @ 2003-05-12 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: James Bottomley; +Cc: Andrew Vasquez, linux-scsi
>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> writes:
James> 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.
James> Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips
James> electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
James> At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports
James> elicit sympathy but not much else.
I very strongly support that idea, right now all the changes I have
made to the qla1280 driver have pretty much been done in the dark.
Cheers,
Jes
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* Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
2003-05-12 21:37 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Jes Sorensen
@ 2003-05-12 23:50 ` Andrew Vasquez
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From: Andrew Vasquez @ 2003-05-12 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-scsi
On Mon, 12 May 2003, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> writes:
>
> James> 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.
>
> James> Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips
> James> electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
>
> James> At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports
> James> elicit sympathy but not much else.
>
> I very strongly support that idea, right now all the changes I have
> made to the qla1280 driver have pretty much been done in the dark.
>
I've forwarded a request to the appropriate people.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
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* Re: Re:[ANNOUNCE] QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
2003-05-12 19:40 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-12 21:37 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Jes Sorensen
@ 2003-05-13 21:04 ` Matthew Jacob
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From: Matthew Jacob @ 2003-05-13 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: James Bottomley; +Cc: Andrew Vasquez, linux-scsi
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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