From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: boutcher@cs.umn.edu, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>,
Linda Xie <lxiep@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:56:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <431F37E6.3080706@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431F35D2.7040209@vlnb.net>
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> 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.
goto the svn page for the code
http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=4492
As for design desc, I do not have anything. It is the evolving source :)
We are slowly merging leasons we learned from open-iscsi, your SCST
code, the available software and HW targets, and the SCSI ULD's
scatterlist code which needs redoing so it is a bit of a mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu>
2005-09-07 2:59 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Anton Blanchard
2005-09-07 14:57 ` Santiago Leon
2005-09-13 15:00 ` Anton Blanchard
2005-09-07 10:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-07 12:45 ` Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-07 12:58 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2005-09-07 17:17 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 17:04 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-07 18:47 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2005-09-07 18:56 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2005-09-07 20:07 ` [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR/SCST 0.9.3-pre1 published Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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