Fibre Channel support for 7.x?

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Wed Mar 12 22:46:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:42:37PM -0600, Tim Nelson wrote:
> Hello! I have a Sun E3500 with an internal fibre channel cage and an external fibre array. Is it possible to install FreeBSD 7.x on this? I remember previous versions would not recognize the fibre controller...
> 

It still doesn't. I think at some point the OpenSolaris source
code started to include the drivers and infrastructure for the
SUNW,soc and SUNW,socal controllers, which could be used as a
reference if you'd like to give writing a FreeBSD driver a try.

Marius



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