Hi Sumit, I understand the business logic of going forward with the qla24xx and up MultiID firmware releases. Unfortunately this will handicap the community participation in testing and exploration of the COMSTAR project. Many shops would be interested in reusing the existing 23xx FC adaptors to create targets in the dev and test worlds and also to build proof of concept environments. The ability to use the older adaptor becomes an enabler on the interest side where the IT shops do not need to invest much to get involved and this can bring the level of acceptance and promotion to a highly productive state and that makes the isp2312 device development effort very worth while. Sometimes business driven decisions are not optimal to emerging technologies. I have some limited skills in with C and when looking at the Solaris snv_90 code it does appear to be possible to include a isp2312 chip without a rewrite since the qlt driver is interfaced with the mailbox method.
It appears to be some registers, speed and the firmware address range issue that would need modification. Without having access to the qlogic development docs or source it is hard to see the full range of issues. The 2300 series of adaptor was very popular and is in good supply out there. It would be a real win for the community if we could convince management to the hidden benifits of it's inclusion. Thanks Mike This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
