Re: QLogic drivers

[David Wagner <david.wagner@qlogic.com>]

Frederick,

For iSCSI HBA's the firmware is carried in FLASH and is not bundled with 
the driver (qla4xxx).

For Fibre Channel, the drivers do carry the firmware binary as you 
mentioned. We changed the license verbiage last year in an attempt to 
address Debian's concerns about the wording relative to the firmware binary.

So if I understand correctly, the Debian release based on 2.6-18 should 
also include the Fibre Channel driver 8.01.07-k1.

Thanks,
Dave

Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:26:38PM -0800, David Wagner wrote:
> > I'm trying to get in sync with which QLogic driver (Fibre Channel or 
> > iSCSI) versions (if any) are presently included in Debian releases.
>
> qla2xxx driven FC HBAs work fine, but you will need the firmware-qlogic
> package from non-free to get them working correctly. 
>
> The qla4xxx driver for qlogic iSCSI devices is not included in 2.6.18, 
> and therefore the corresponding devices are not supported by etch (now). 
> AFAIK this driver was merged in 2.6.19.
>  
> > For future releases, are the drivers obtained from whatever is in the 
> > kernel tree?
>
> Plans exist to update the kernel in a future point release, in order to
> support newer hardware. 
> But the qla4xxx drivers require a firmware blob, which will not be added 
> to etch - if it will be packaged at all due to the restrictive licensing.
>
> Best regards
> Frederik Schueler