From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Broadcom 8603 SAS/SATA driver, rough draft Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:46:12 -0400 Message-ID: <46F6FAC4.2020509@garzik.org> References: <20070923040437.GA30170@havoc.gtf.org> <46F6E1C2.20905@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46652 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754441AbXIWXqO (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:46:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46F6E1C2.20905@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , James Bottomley Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Is the lack of SMP support a driver limitation or is it > the silicon? > > How about support for wide ports (i.e. when 2 or more HBA > phys are attached to remote phys which have the same SAS > addresses)? > > Last question: can the chip run in SCSI target mode? Just for everybody's information, the Marvell SAS/SATA chip for which I'm also writing a driver definitely supports all of that: SMP, STP, wire ports, SCSI target mode, even SATA target mode. Jeff