Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751052AbVI1PP4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:15:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751048AbVI1PPz (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:15:55 -0400 Received: from mail0.lsil.com ([147.145.40.20]:3767 "EHLO mail0.lsil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbVI1PPz (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:15:55 -0400 Message-ID: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C04388439@nacos172.co.lsil.com> From: "Moore, Eric Dean" To: ltuikov@yahoo.com, Luben Tuikov , Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List Subject: RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:15:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2658.27) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1488 Lines: 49 On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:42 AM, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > Hi Luben, > > > > OK, Man are you alright? > > > > I've heard of other vendors planning to > > provide solutions where sas is implemented > > in firmware, similar to MPT. Christophs > > sas layer is going to work with other > > solutions, don't think of it being > > MPT centric. > > Where in what I said above do I say that it will _not_ > work with _other_ MPT based drivers? Nowhere! > > Yes it _will_ work with other MPT-like drivers but > to cut and paste again from above: > * MPT based only, > * doesn't follow a spec to save its life, > * far inferior in SAS capabilities and SAS representation > again, due to the fact that it is MPT based. > > When I say MPT, I do not mean MPT(R), I mean MPT as > in technology, not as in trademark. > > Luben > Luben: I guess you didn't get what I meant. I was referring that there are other *vendors* (not LSI, e.g MegaRAID) that are working on sas solutions with sas firmware implementation. One that comes to mind is Intel SunRise Lake, which is non a MPT based solution, that would work with Christophs Sas Layer. There maybe others, such as emulex. Perhaps James S. could comment on that. Eric - 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/