Andreas Bergstrøm wrote: > > On 17. des.. 2008, at 18:06, Mike Christie wrote: >> Did you get some drivers and userspace tools from Dell? Were the tools >> open-iscsi based? > > Yes, I should perhaps have linked this: > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/BroadCom/R125805/en/linux.htm#wp397875 > > In my earlier e-mail, sorry about that. > > The open-iscsi package patched to ensure bnx2i support with open-iscsi > appears to be a patched version of > open-iscsi-2.0-865, but building of it fails due to: > >> No rule to make target `linux_2_6_24', needed by `kernel_check'. Stop > > And yes, I am using a 2.6.24 kernel, and looking at the mailing list > archives, there was a problem with earlier iSCSI revisions and that > kernel if I understood correctly?
There is a bug with the kernel modules that come with 2.6.24. If you use the iscsi modules in the open-iscsi.org tarball then that is fixed. The problem for you would be that the newer tools on open-iscsi.org will probably not work right with the bnx2i code you have. > > (And I was hoping to void using a non-distry kernel, for easier > maintenance, especially as the box will be a xen virtualisation server.) > > (On the bright side, IO throughput with pure sofware open-iscsi is a > lot higher than our older SCSI AtaBoy II boxes could deliver :)) > >> bnx2i is not in the upstream kernel so the support in the distro tools >> and open-iscsi.org tools may not be complete. bnx2i is changing its >> driver and firmware so the tools support is on hold until broadcom is >> done with those changes. > > > I see. I'll try contacting Dell and see if they have some updated > drivers for Broadcom iSCSI support, otherwise I guess I should just > wait until broadcom finishes their changes? > Yeah, sorry. I cannot help much here. You can search the archives for some broadcom guys and bug them :) I know they are working to try and finish things up and get the driver upstream so everything should be intergrated properly soon. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
