From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:47:46 +0400 Message-ID: <431F35D2.7040209@vlnb.net> References: <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu> <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de> <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay02.infobox.ru ([195.208.235.29]:42987 "EHLO relay02.infobox.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768AbVIGStW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:49:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie Cc: boutcher@cs.umn.edu, Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Santiago Leon , Linda Xie Dave C Boutcher wrote: > 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? Sorry, I can see on stgt page only mail lists archive and not from start (from Aug 22). Mike, can I see stgt code and some design description, please? You can send it directly on my e-mail address, if necessary. Vlad