On 12/23/2016 11:18 AM, The Lee-Man wrote: > On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 7:32:27 AM UTC-8, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 12/22/2016 07:07 PM, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > I found a bnx2x card with iscsi hardware offload support. Running > > iscsistart -f does bring the interace up and assign an IP to it as > > long as OFFLOAD_BOOT_SUPPORTED is defined. However, iscsistart -b > needs iscsiuio > > running to log into a LUN, which the current debian scripts do not > > start (or even add to the initramfs). > > So the reason why neither Ritesh nor I have added support for > iscsiuio in the initramfs to the Debian package is that we both > don't have any hardware with a corresponding network card, so > we are really unable to test it. > > > > We'll gladly accept patches for the initramfs logic (or even > help writing them if you agree to test them) to get this working, > so please feel free to contact me, either privately or via the > Debian bugtracker, in this regard. >
I can start on this after the end of the year, testing or providing a patch or both. I will file a debian bug. > Regards, > Christian > > > I have a similar issue for SUSE. I have one BNX card, but it is > an engineering prototype that actually does not work correctly. > > It seems like it would behoove the card manufacturers to have > a loaner program for OS enablement. > They all have loaner programs I believe (Emulex in particular is very good at this). The issue is almost always who to contact. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
