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

[Ram Kishore Vegesna]

Thanks Scott, will post the code via the Phabricator system.

On Fri, 12 May 2017 at 8:39 PM, Scott Long <scottl at netflix.com> wrote:

> Hi Ram,
>
> Great to hear.  Might I suggest that you post the code for review via the
> Phabricator system?  Instructions
> for doing this are here:
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Phabricator
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> > On May 12, 2017, at 12:09 AM, Ram Kishore Vegesna via freebsd-scsi <
> freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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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