Re: [RFC] SCSI target for IBM Power5 LPAR

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> Dave C Boutcher wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>
> Sorry, I can see on stgt page only mail lists archive and not from start 
> (from Aug 22). Mike, can I see stgt code and some design description, 
> please? You can send it directly on my e-mail address, if necessary.


goto the svn page for the code
http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=4492

As for design desc, I do not have anything. It is the evolving source :) 
We are slowly merging leasons we learned from open-iscsi, your SCST 
code, the available software and HW targets, and the SCSI ULD's 
scatterlist code which needs redoing so it is a bit of a mess.
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