Re: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

Alan Cox
2001-05-02T21:16:01Z

> If I understand correctly, some vendor would put I2O messaging hardware but
> they would use it in a non-standard way ? So, if they dont support the I2O
> protocol with their hardware, I will have to do it in another way...
>
> Is there a simple way to find out if my device support I2O protocol ? Maybe
> its written in the BAR or in the CSR, but does linux find those devices
> automaticly ? or do I have to do it in my module ? If I must do it myself,
> do you know any device that is doing something like I do ? so I could look
> at the code.

If its running as an I2O device, it will be class I2O PCI and it'll have about
300K+ of firmware (probably vxworks) loaded onto it and a chunk of RAM. WHat
sort of device is this ?