From: Dave C Boutcher <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:45:04 -0500
> 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.
The generic scsi target framework (stgt) is not SCST (that Vlad has
maintained). It is the project that Mike Christie and I started last
month. We discussed it with Christoph and decided that it would be
better to start from scratch because of the design differences.
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