On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > On Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This is just a brindup helper because the Fusion hardware does a SAS > > remote port to target ID mapping in firmware, in fact the firmware > > interface only addresses them using this assigned ID, which is a big > > shortcoming in the Fusion interface. Once the more basic things are > > dealt with that will go away, similarly to how Fusion won't be able > > to use their firmware mapping for FC once they fully support the FC > > transport class. > > > > Thats incorrect about the Fusion Firmware Interface. > > The Sas Device Config pages offers three ways to access this config page. > They are: (1) GetNextHandle (2) BusTargetID (3) Handle. > This is set in config page pageAddr field - bits 28-31. Lets say you want > to know all the devices out in the sas domain that is discovered by > this HBA, you do the GetNextHandle method. Bits 0-27 is the FormSpecific. > In FormSpecific, you pass 0xFFFF for the first request, then you pass the > devHandle for the previous config page to get the next. The 3.02.55 code > I sent you did this discovery in mptbase.c, in a function called > mpt_sas_get_info. > All this info is stored in a link list, that currently is used for CSMI.
That's actually what I'm doing in the patchkit I submitted (please review it an given James a ACK/NACK, thanks), what I meant with addressing was the I/O (or internal frame) submission path, which expects to have the SPI-like target ID set. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
