svn commit: r47975 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jan 9 19:39:50 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jan  9 19:39:48 2016
New Revision: 47975
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47975

Log:
  Add isp(4) report from mav

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 19:23:42 2016	(r47974)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 19:39:48 2016	(r47975)
@@ -666,4 +666,63 @@
 	allocation/free path.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>Improvements to QLogic HBA driver</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Alexander</given>
+	  <common>Motin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mav at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The QLogic HBA driver <tt>isp(4)</tt> received a
+	substantial set of changes.  Their primary goal was to make Fibre
+	Channel target role work well with CTL, but many other things were
+	also fixed/improved:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Added support for modern 16Gbps 26xx FC cards.</li>
+
+	<li>The firmware in <tt>ispfw(4)</tt> were updated to the
+	  latest versions.</li>
+
+	<li>Target role support was fixed and tested for all FC cards from
+	  ancient 1Gbps 22xx to modern 16Gbps 26xx.</li>
+
+	<li>Port database handling was unified for target and initiator
+	  roles, allowing HBA port to play both roles at the same time.</li>
+
+	<li>The maximal number of ports was increased from 256 to
+	  1024.</li>
+
+	<li>Multi-ID (NPIV) functionality was fixed/implemented, allowing
+	  24xx and above cards to provide up to 255 virtual FC ports per
+	  physical port.</li>
+
+	<li>Added support for 8-byte LUNs for 24xx and above cards.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>The code is committed to &os; head and stable/10 branches.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      iXsystems, Inc.
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>NVRAM data reading is hackish and requires rework.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>FCoE support for 26xx cards was not tested yet.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
