Darren J Moffat wrote: > Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems wrote: >> This is another case that maybe could be handled as a self-review, but >> because there is no precedent for converged devices yet, I felt it best >> to leave this a fast track. > > I think I'm going to be asking the same question Rich did in the other > case. > > What does it really mean that this is a converged NIC driver. From what > I can tell from both of these cases there is a physical bit of hardware > that does two things. Yet the drivers for these cases only mention the > GLDv3 networking part. So how are these different to other NIC drivers > for things on the motherboard ? >
Other part is FC and drivers(qlc, emlxs) are already in Solaris. qlc had the support already in the driver. emlxs will have the support at the same time when this goes into Solaris. > Is there going to be a single driver for the GLDv3 part and the "other" > part ? What is the "other" part ? If it is separate drivers then I > don't see what the issue really is. > > The only thing I can relate to is the vca(7D) driver for the SCA-4000 > that you were involved in. >
