An fc4 user appears
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:52:22AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:16:05PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> > So, now I have Linux installed. Next task: getting the fibre channel
> > working. I'm currently digging through the configuration options on the
> > kernel. (Downloaded 2.6.33.1 from kernel.org) I can't for the life of me
> > find the Sun fibre channel driver. I could have sworn it was SOC or
> > something like that...
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:46:56PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> > Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is
> > missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able
> > to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4,
> > and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after
> > make menuconfig. I can't find this driver in the newer kernels. Does
> > anyone know what happened to it? Did it get merged in with another driver?
> >
> > I really want to get this A5000 working :)
>
> fc4 was removed in October 2007 with this commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1ecd3902c6e16c2445165b872c49e73770b72da7
Yep, I removed it. Resurrecting it will be quite a task. Best of luck.
I'm willing to answer questions (please cc linux-scsi), but not do
the work.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
Reply to: