Bug 463371

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201110:Broadcom iSCSI support - bnx2iscsi
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	coughlan, ejratl, k.georgiou, notting, peterm
Target Milestone:	alpha	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	356741, 465489, 512364

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-23 03:20:40 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-16 18:30 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201110]
a. Name of Feature:	Broadcom iSCSI support - bnx2iscsi
b. Feature Description
Broadcom recently submitted their iSCSI driver for 570x based controllers to the open source
community. Most System x servers have these controllers embedded on system boards. We are requesting
that this driver (bnx2iscsi) be integrated into distro releases. Please see:   
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118619702115855&w=2

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	xSeries
Architectures:
x86
x86_64

Arch Specificity: Purely Common Code
Affects Kernel Modules: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	xSeries
Request Type:	Driver - Feature from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Submitted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	no
g. Component Version Target:	2.6.27

3. Business Case
Customers with System x servers containing planar-embedded Broadcom 570X NICs will be able to have
'built-in' iSCSI support.

Benefits
Enable iSCSI support on network interfaces (bcm5706, bcm5708) prevalent on most System x servers.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Monte Knutson, mknutson.com, 877-894-1495

Technical contact(s):
Kevin Stansell, kstansel.com
Chris McDermott, mcdermoc.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-02 16:29:27 UTC

This driver does not appear to be upstream as of yet.

Comment 3 Tom Coughlan 2009-10-01 20:26:26 UTC

This is in RHEL 5.4 and 2.6.31, so it will be in RHEL 6. I'll close this, since it is not really a new feature. If 6.0 bugfixes are needed, open a BZ for that.

Comment 4 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-05-21 21:20:49 UTC

------- Comment From coschult.com 2010-05-21 17:18 EDT-------
Verified on snap4. I am able to log into an iscsi target and work with the filesystem.