From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753470Ab1HQO4q (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:56:46 -0400 Received: from yuna.grokhost.net ([87.117.228.63]:38012 "EHLO yuna.grokhost.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752655Ab1HQO4n (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:56:43 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 327 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:56:43 EDT Message-ID: <4E4BD560.4010806@bootc.net> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:51:12 +0100 From: Chris Boot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: FireWire/SBP2 Target mode Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi folks, Now that we have a nice SCSI target framework in the kernel, and drivers either in-tree or being worked on for iSCSI, FC, FCoE, SAS and iSER, I was wondering about the possibility of adding FireWire to that list. Apple Macs have had a FireWire Target Disk mode for a long time, and there is even a program called Endpoint[1] that apparently does this on Linux though it looks completely untouched since 2003 and no longer works as it depends on the old FireWire stack. I would very much like to see something like this added to the kernel, and would very much like to contribute to writing this feature. However my kernel development knowledge is very limited indeed so this would require a lot hand-holding and mentoring. What's the interest in such a feature? Would anyone be able to give some (a lot?) of their time to help write this? Thanks, Chris [1] http://oss.oracle.com/projects/endpoint/