Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47975 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601091939.u09JdniE099430@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Jan 9 19:39:48 2016 New Revision: 47975 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47975 Log: Add isp(4) report from mav Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 19:23:42 2016 (r47974) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 19:39:48 2016 (r47975) @@ -666,4 +666,63 @@ allocation/free path.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Improvements to QLogic HBA driver</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Alexander</given> + <common>Motin</common> + </name> + <email>mav@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The QLogic HBA driver <tt>isp(4)</tt> received a + substantial set of changes. Their primary goal was to make Fibre + Channel target role work well with CTL, but many other things were + also fixed/improved:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Added support for modern 16Gbps 26xx FC cards.</li> + + <li>The firmware in <tt>ispfw(4)</tt> were updated to the + latest versions.</li> + + <li>Target role support was fixed and tested for all FC cards from + ancient 1Gbps 22xx to modern 16Gbps 26xx.</li> + + <li>Port database handling was unified for target and initiator + roles, allowing HBA port to play both roles at the same time.</li> + + <li>The maximal number of ports was increased from 256 to + 1024.</li> + + <li>Multi-ID (NPIV) functionality was fixed/implemented, allowing + 24xx and above cards to provide up to 255 virtual FC ports per + physical port.</li> + + <li>Added support for 8-byte LUNs for 24xx and above cards.</li> + </ul> + + <p>The code is committed to &os; head and stable/10 branches.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + iXsystems, Inc. + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>NVRAM data reading is hackish and requires rework.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>FCoE support for 26xx cards was not tested yet.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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