By the way, these are my own personal opinions and do not represent in
any form the opinions of my employer.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:52:53AM -0400, Joel Martin wrote:
> Good eye Bruce,
>
> AFAIK, the system that wasn't built to run Linux, it was just that there
> was some free time and an internal guy took the opportunity to see
> how a Linux 2.4 kernel would do on the machine. Turns out pretty well
> :-) I don't believe that he had to patch the kernel at all to achieve
> this, the current Alpha updates were sufficient.
>
> So...those PCI lines about the Emulex Fibre Channel HBA's are just the
> kernel recognizing that something is there. There isn't currently an
> Alpha Emulex driver that exists for Linux.
>
>
> A little history and a rant:
>
> A couplle months ago Emulex announced that it was going to release
> it's Fibre Channel drivers Open Source for Linux and that it would
> compile for Alpha Linux machines as well:
> http://www.emulex.com/press/2000/linux.html
>
> Well, a few days ago I was informed that they had released the driver.
> So I went to their ftp site:
> ftp://ftp.emulex.com/pub/fibrechannel/drivers/all_other_lp_models/linux/4.02f/
>
> Downloaded the driver and had a look. Hmmm... the driver is NOT
> Open Source and does NOT compile on Alpha Linux. I've contacted Emulex
> about this but the director of marketing that I talked to is holding the
> position that the press release was in error about the Open Source release.
>
> I don't believe him, and I've told him as much because the directory
> that the partial source is contained in is named "OpenSource"
> capitalization and all. And the documentation mentions that it is Open
> Source.
>
> If you look at what they provide in the download, you will see that
> the key part of the driver (the actual interface with the Emulex
> hardware) is closed x86 object files (one for uniprocessor and one for
> multiprocessor). The source is really just the upper layers of the
> Fibre Channel stack which isn't very valuable because the protocol is
> very well documented and Qlogic and Interphase provide full linux
> source for their FC cards.
>
> If you want to contact Emulex more about this, the guy I've been
> talking to is their director of marketing Mike Kane:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Joel Martin
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:05:23AM -0400, Bruce McCulley wrote:
> > So it's got a fair amount of grunt on the compute side, how's the I/O
> > bandwidth?
> >
> > I only saw 8 fiberchannels, right? Am I missing anything?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Joel Martin wrote:
> >
>
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