Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:43:42 -0400 From: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> To: "Sean Bruno" <sbruno@miralink.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ISP] QLA2432 Target Mode Broken Message-ID: <3c0b01820808291543q694c9692jc0f1e7c922344f29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48B837DB.1000903@miralink.com> References: <48B6E19A.7050603@miralink.com> <3c0b01820808281059k3c33e352g6be72f02817e8e6a@mail.gmail.com> <48B6EF1A.1040805@miralink.com> <3c0b01820808290951s6a3a8ebuf6ea501308ed91c3@mail.gmail.com> <48B837DB.1000903@miralink.com>
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If I get a chance, maybe I can try that and see what happens to me!! -aps On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote: > Alexander Sack wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Alexander Sack wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I tried putting a 2432 into target mode this week and noted that the >>>>> system >>>>> threw a pretty nice panic and thought I would post the output here. >>>>> Reviewing the 4G documentation from Qlogic, it looks like they've >>>>> substantially changed the target mode interface, so I'm not surprised >>>>> that >>>>> there's some work to do. If anyone has any patches they'd like me to >>>>> test, >>>>> I'm open to integration: >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Did you rebuild the isp driver with -DISP_TARGET_MODE defined? I only >>>> mention this because the output below seems like you twiddled the >>>> "role" hint instead of actually recompile the driver? >>>> >>>> -aps >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Ah, yes, that's a little magic I was trying ... sorry about that. >>> >>> Yes, I definitely compiled with ISP_TARGET_MODE defined. :) >>> >> >> Yea sorry, I just was checking. I don't have a clue right now why you >> are dying but some else is seeing similar nastiness in target mode. >> Minimally you should file a bug. >> >> How did you setup your box, how do you reproduce etc. etc.? >> >> thanks! >> >> -aps >> > > Well, I put a 2432 into my box and recompiled with target mode enabled. > Nothing fancy. > > :) > > A 23XX card in it's place works just fine. > I believe, due to the architecture difference between the 4G/8G and 2G cards > that it just doesn't work right now. > The 4G/8G architecture does nothing in target mode except DMA the incoming > data. the 2G cards do some things > for the driver. > > I was hoping that someone has some patches in their trees just lying around > that I could look over and test for > 4G target mode support. :) > > -- > Sean Bruno > MiraLink Corporation > 6015 NE 80th Ave, Ste 100 > Portland, OR 97218 > Phone 503-621-5143 > Fax 503-621-5199 > MSN: sbruno@miralink.com > Google: seanwbruno@gmail.com > Yahoo: sean_bruno@yahoo.com > >
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