QLogic FC Driver for Linux kernel 2.5 available.
Quoted 3 lines · Andrew Vasquez
QLogic is pleased to announce the availability of a completely new version of the QLogic FC driver (8.00.00b1) for its ISP21xx/ISP22xx/ISP23xx chips and HBAs. Our desire
hi,
Are you going to update too the very ancient qla1280 driver/firmware ?
-thanks-
regards,
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Galiza nin perdoa nin esquence. Governo demision!
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QLogic is pleased to announce the availability of a completely new version of the QLogic FC driver (8.00.00b1) for its ISP21xx/ISP22xx/ISP23xx chips and HBAs. Our desire
hi,
Are you going to update too the very ancient qla1280 driver/firmware ?
Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
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Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports elicit sympathy but not much else.
James
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"James" == James Bottomley <[email protected]> writes:
Quoted 2 lines · Andrew Vasquez
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Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
James> Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips James> electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
James> At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports James> elicit sympathy but not much else.
I very strongly support that idea, right now all the changes I have made to the qla1280 driver have pretty much been done in the dark.
Cheers,
Jes
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"James" == James Bottomley <[email protected]> writes:
Quoted 2 lines · Andrew Vasquez
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Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
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James> Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips James> electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
James> At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports James> elicit sympathy but not much else.
I very strongly support that idea, right now all the changes I have made to the qla1280 driver have pretty much been done in the dark.
I've forwarded a request to the appropriate people.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
You typically have to sign an NDA for such information :-(.
It's really not all that hard to support the older chips though. A more crucial piece of information is the chip errata- issues like the first cut of the 1080 chip not working with Seagate drives but with Quantum and IBM drives- those pieces of info are very hard to get ahold of.
Personally, *I* care about the older chipsets. I *do* support them in my somewhat problematic linux driver. I also have active target mode support in a number of contexts for them because I actually *do* have people who still need this support.
This is also a non-PCI issue as there are still boatloads of the ISP1000 SBus cards out there as well.
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Quoted 2 lines · Andrew Vasquez
Unfortunately, no. QLogic has no plans to update qla1280 -- all parallel SCSI HBAs have been EOLed.
Could Qlogic at least publish the documentation for these chips electronically so we have a vague chance of supporting them?
At the moment most of the ISP1020 and ISP1040 bug reports elicit sympathy but not much else.
James
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