From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 4 18:48:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057BC4FA for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mjacob@freebsd.org) Received: from virtual.feral.com (virtual.feral.com [216.224.170.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FD4A2BCB for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spea.in1.lcl (lowell.feral.com [76.14.48.84]) by virtual.feral.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r84IlYr7006746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:47:45 -0700 Received: from spea.in1.lcl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spea.in1.lcl (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r84IlYko002258; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:47:34 -0700 Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by spea.in1.lcl (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id r84IlYC0002254; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:47:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:47:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob To: Mathieu Simon Subject: Re: Newer Qlogic FC card support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20130903215230.GA5830@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.03 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (virtual.feral.com [216.224.170.83]); Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD SCSI X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: mjacob@freebsd.org List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:48:47 -0000 > > 2013/9/4 Matthew Jacob >> >> >> The 25XX cards are the latest supported. I have manuals for the newer >> cards (that I can't release) but no hardware. > > > Turning the question the other way round (and possibly asking stupid dumb > question): > > If you had access to hardware (and time etc.) then it could be possible to > see support for > QLE26xx (16G FC HBA) or QLE83x (10G CNA)? > Part of me says "Sure! That'd be great!". Part of me says I'm deathly tired of isp and Fibre Channel in general, and also of FreeBSD. The isp driver is long overdue for a rewrite to trim out cards that mostly are don't cares at this point. FreeBSD could use first class FC support as well. The ideal situation, possibly, would be to get the vendor interested in actually supporting the h/w by having a real engineer be a committer (much like Jack Vogel is for Intel NICs). I doubt that will happen any time soon. There's just a *bare* possibility that my current paying gig will have me work on QLogic CNA cards. That might get me an excuse to spend time on FreeBSD, but probably not with actual h/w (they have like *two* cards and it's a 2nd order project for them in support of their main h/w). If anyone in reading range of this email gets all hot and excited about adding CNA support to isp, or do a newer driver, please speak up! If nobody speaks up in the next couple of days, anyone who has h/w to loan please contact me off list. I don't have anything faster than a 4GiB switch, but I *do* have a couple of 16GiB Emulex cards so I could at least do point-to-point testing there.