Fiber channel driver for Broadcom/Emulex FC host bus adapters.

[Ram Kishore Vegesna]

Hi Ken,

 Thanks for the quick response.

 I am working on restructuring the driver code which will be good for
integrating into FreeBSD. Will post the driver for review once its done.

-Ram



On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Ken Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:

> That is good news!  It will be good to have the driver in the tree.
>
> As for how to get it into FreeBSD:
>
> 1. Make sure it is BSD-licsened.  GPLed code isn’t allowed in the kernel.
> Other licenses (MIT, CDDL) might be possible.  Here is an example license:
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/examples/etc/
> bsd-style-copyright?revision=180207&view=markup
>
> 2. Get a committer to review it.  I can do that if you like.  I may still
> have some 16Gb boards from when I was reviewing the Emulex FC driver in
> 2012.
>
> 3. Once you get past the review, you can either have the committer put it
> in the tree, or wait until we get one or more Emulex developers approved as
> committers.  See #4.
>
> 4. Decide on one or more Emulex developers to maintain the driver as
> FreeBSD committers.  These should be people who are likely to stay on the
> project for a while, so new folks don’t need to be brought up to speed too
> often.  The new committers will need one or more current committers as
> mentors, and all commits will have to be approved until the mentor is
> satisfied that the new committer is ready to go on their own.  The
> committers’ guide will give you an idea of what is involved:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/
>
> The eventual goal will be to have one or more Emulex folks who are
> committers and can maintain the driver in the FreeBSD tree.
>
> There are two FreeBSD committers (at least) from Broadcom, Steve McConnell
> and Kashyap Desai.  They work on the SAS and MegaRAID products.
>
> As for timelines, we’re about to start the process for FreeBSD 11.1.
> Depending on the state of the driver, it may be possible to get it into
> 11.1, but it’s hard to say that with any certainty until we see the driver.
>
> Ken
> —
> Ken Merry
> ken at FreeBSD.ORG
>
>
>
> On May 11, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Ram Kishore Vegesna via freebsd-scsi <
> freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are planning to upstream/inbox our FreeBSD cam driver which supports
> Emulex FC host bus adapters (LPe16xx and LPe32xx family).
>
> Please provide me the inputs on process of up-streaming driver. If you can
> share any documents related to that will be of great help.
>
> Note: Please correct me if I am posting the request on wrong mailing list.
> If possible provide the maintainer contact.
>
> Thanks,
> Ram
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