Improvements to QLogic HBA driver

From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Sat Jan 9 19:39:50 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFDFA6A1EB; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 115B41319; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u09Jdn26099431; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:49 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u09JdniE099430; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:49 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201601091939.u09JdniE099430@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:39:49 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:39:50 -0000 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.

+ + + Improvements to QLogic HBA driver + + + + + Alexander + Motin + + mav@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

The QLogic HBA driver isp(4) 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:

+ +

Added support for modern 16Gbps 26xx FC cards.
The firmware in ispfw(4) were updated to the + latest versions.
Target role support was fixed and tested for all FC cards from + ancient 1Gbps 22xx to modern 16Gbps 26xx.
Port database handling was unified for target and initiator + roles, allowing HBA port to play both roles at the same time.
The maximal number of ports was increased from 256 to + 1024.
Multi-ID (NPIV) functionality was fixed/implemented, allowing + 24xx and above cards to provide up to 255 virtual FC ports per + physical port.
Added support for 8-byte LUNs for 24xx and above cards.

+ +

The code is committed to &os; head and stable/10 branches.

+ + + + iXsystems, Inc. + + + + +

NVRAM data reading is hackish and requires rework.

+ + + +

FCoE support for 26xx cards was not tested yet.

+ + +