Linux I2O Support (c) Copyright 1999-2002 Red Hat and others. 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. Hardware Compatibility ----------------------- This is an informal test summary. It is not definitive as a reference work or guaranteed of any accuracy. Last updated for 2.4.19pre7-ac1 Tested Hardware block config lan proc scsi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Release AMI MegaRAID[0] YES YES N/A YES N/A Previous Stable Release (2.4.18ac3) AMI MegaRAID[0] FAIL DPT Smartraid ------------ Use dpt_i2o module ------------ Intel SCU RAID FAIL[2] ??? N/A ??? FAIL[2] Promise Supertrak100 YES[3] YES[3] N/A YES[3] N/A Promise SX6000 YES[3] YES[3] N/A YES[3] N/A Symbios FC920 YES YES[4] N/A YES YES [0] In I2O mode. For normal mode use the megaraid driver [1] Initialisation oddities and scsi failure. Use dpt_i2o module instead. [2] Card hangs under certain load patterns. [3] The driver works correctly. Certain values are misreported by this card but the results are only cosmetic. Firmware updates are required for some very early cards. Set the card into I2O not 'Linux' mode. [4] HTML configuration mode not available. Requirements ------------ I2O 1.5 compliant hardware PCI bus interrupt driven I2O devices Devices in classes Block, Lan or SCSI. 32bit I2O messages supported Limitations ----------- 64bit message formats are not supported (64bit I2O is basically a whole different driver variant) I2O Tape class is not supported (no known devices using this..) Currently only 32bit x86 platforms are supported. Authors -------- Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd. Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp. Debugging SCSI and Block OSM Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp. Various core/block extensions /proc interface, bug fixes Ioctl interfaces for control Debugging LAN OSM Philip Rumpf Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland LAN OSM code /proc interface to LAN class Bug fixes Core code extensions Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland LAN OSM code /Proc interface to LAN class Bug fixes Core code extensions Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland Fixes to i2o_config Boji T Kannanthanam Intel i2o controller work, extending proc/config stuff Credits -------- This work was made possible by Red Hat Funding for the Building #3 part of the project Symbios Logic (Now LSI) Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit compatibility problems BoxHill Corporation Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work. European Comission Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki SysKonnect Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards ASUSTeK Loan of I2O motherboard Promise Providing a Supertrak 100 board and support info DPT (now Adaptec) Providing a DPT smartraid I2O card (use dpt_i2o for this board however) General: o Finish 64bit and big endian cleanup o Switch to new PCI mapping layer throughout o Hotswap of controllers o PCI IOP's without interrupts are not supported yet o Push FAIL handling into the core Block: o Multiple major numbers (problem goes away in 2.5) o Power management SCSI: Lan: o Performance tuning o Test Fibre Channel code Tape: o Anyone seen anything implementing this ?