iscsi support

[Scott Long]

Andrew Atrens wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm spec'ing a daughterboard for a card that's possibly to be running
> FreeBSD (or OpenBSD) and am more than curious about the state of iSCSI
> support in *BSD.
> 
> In particular, the Qlogic ISP4010 is one part being considered, but 
> there are
> other parts from Broadcom, etc.
> 
> Googling around I've seen iscsi patches for qlogic isp4xxx available for
> linux, but the BSD situation is a bit more murky. (At least for me!)
> 
> Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please contact me directly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 

I'm not aware of any hardware iSCSI support in the works for FreeBSD 
right now.  The estimate for getting something done would depend
largely on the requirements of the hardware, of course, but also on
how well it needs to integrate with the CAM/SCSI layer.  CAM really is
parallel-SCSI centric; things like iSCSI can sit on top of it, but some
infrastructure work really is needed to make them more than just hacks.
But, if you have hardware and specs available, I'm sure that there are
people on this list that would be interested in helping get something
done, myself included.

Scott