Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932140AbVIGMpR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:45:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932139AbVIGMpK (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:45:10 -0400 Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu ([128.101.32.202]:13754 "EHLO mail.cs.umn.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932134AbVIGMpI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:45:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500 From: Dave C Boutcher To: Christoph Hellwig , Vladislav Bolkhovitin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Santiago Leon , Linda Xie Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR Message-ID: <20050907124504.GA13614@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: boutcher@cs.umn.edu Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Santiago Leon , Linda Xie References: <20050906212801.GB14057@cs.umn.edu> <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050907104932.GA14200@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 24 On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Dave C Boutcher wrote: > > This device driver provides the SCSI target side of the "virtual > > SCSI" on IBM Power5 systems. The initiator side has been in mainline > > for a while now (drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c.) Targets already > > exist for AIX and OS/400. > > Please try to integrate that with the generic scsi target framework at > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt/. There hasn't been a lot of forward progress on stgt in over a year, and there were some issues (lack of scatterlist support, synchronous and serial command execution) that were an issue when last I looked. Vlad, can you comment on the state of stgt and whether you see it being ready for mainline any time soon? -- Dave Boutcher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/