linux redhat emulex support

[Gerrit_1]

Hi,
where can I find which emulex-cards are supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux3.

I find many types on Red Hat Enterprise Linux2.1 but none on Linux3.

Any help would be appreciated.
Tx in advance.

[Jerome Henry · Accepted solution]

Hi,
They don't seem to be officially supported by now. A call to Red Hat could confirm it.
The place you seem to have serached ( http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=hcl&view=allhardware&vendor=432&class=4#list and http://www.redhat.com/software/drivers/emulex/ ) show latest support is for 2.1.
But some of emulex card still work on 3.0, look at :
http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2004-October/msg00007.html

hth

Jerome Henry

[HGN]

Hi

We have servers here with Emulex cards and are running fine(not sure which model). Regarding the drivers emulex themselves should be having for redhat 3.

Rgds

Gopi

[xyko_1]

Hi,

I think the best place to find out about supported hardware and software is http://www.emulex.com/ts/dds.html

Pay attention with dependencies regarding hardware vendors mostly EMC because if you don't follow all the dependencies and restrictions you loose hardware vendor support.

Regards,
Xyko

[Serviceguard for Linux]

Last I checked (which was a while ago) Emulex did not have an open source driver. Red hat will not add/support a driver that is not open source.

[dirk dierickx]

@Rick,

in fact emulex did release their drivers into the open source world a few months ago. However the code was ugly, and people are cleaning them up right now after which they will get officially included in the 2.6 kernel.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lpfcxxxx/

in fact the above driver can be used in RH as well, you will just have to compile it yourself.

[xyko_1]

Hi Rick and Dirk,

I've been using Emulex cards for a long time and the driver is, as far as I know, free software (GPL).

Here we have the README file that cames with the driver and the initial part of the Makefile. As we can see Emulex states that it's GPLed.

Regards,
Xyko

README
************************************************************************
Emulex Corporation

README for the Driver kit 1.23a for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Adapters

September 12, 2003
************************************************************************

This Application kit has been designed for the following environment:

- Supported Hardware architecture platforms:
- 32-bit Intel platforms (IA-32)
- 64-bit Intel platforms (IA-64)
- Power PC 64 bits (PPC)

- Supported Linux OS (note that testing has been conducted only with the kernels in parenthesis):
- Red Hat Pro 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-27)
- Red Hat Pro 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-27)
- Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 x86 (kernel 2.4.9-e.16)
- SLES 7 x86 (kernel 2.4.16)
- SLES 8 x86 (kernel 2.4.19)
- Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 IA-64 (kernel 2.4.18-e.25)
- SuSE 8.0 ppc64 (kernel 2.4.19-u11-ppc64)

- Supported Emulex enterprise adapters:
- LP8000
- LP9000
- LP9002L
- LP9002DC
- LP9402DC
- LP9802
- LP10000
- LP9802
- LP10000

- This driver supports any mix of the above Emulex adapters within a single host system.

Main driver features:
1. Full fabric support, discovery, FCP and fibre channel device/error and exception handling
2. Concurrent multi-protocol (FCP and IP) support
3. Supports INT13 (EDD 2.1/3.0) fabric boot.
4. This driver is entirely self-contained and intended for configuration using lpfc. No external utility is required or suppo
rted.
5. This driver will not be dependent on any non-open source program for its execution. It will not taint an open source kerne
l.


Makefile
#/*******************************************************************
# * This file is part of the Emulex Linux Device Driver for *
# * Enterprise Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters. *
# * Refer to the README file included with this package for *
# * driver version and adapter support. *
# * Copyright (C) 2003 Emulex Corporation. *
# * www.emulex.com *
# * *
# * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or *
# * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License *
# * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 *
# * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. *
# * *
# * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *
# * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
# * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the *
# * GNU General Public License for more details, a copy of which *
# * can be found in the file COPYING included with this package. *
# *******************************************************************/