This removes 288KB (36%) of the driver code and zillions of hacks and
workarounds, making single driver uniformly support several different
generations of hardware interfaces, not counting minor card variations.
After years of the hopeless fight, I don't think it worth to continue
support for hardware obsolete for 15-20 years. Instead much cleaner
now code should allow to move forward toward better locking, multiple
queues and other cool features.
All the remaining Qlogic cards starting from 4Gb 24xx to 32Gb 27xx use
the same hardware/firmware interface with minor incremental improvements,
so it seems to be a good new starting point. Except one PCI-X model all
all of them are PCIe and so still usable in modern systems.
Discussed with: ken, scottl, jpaetzel, imp
Relnotes: yes
Hacks to enable target mode there complicated code, while didn't really
work. And for outdated hardware fixing it is not really interesting.
Initiator mode tested with Qlogic 1080 adapter is still working fine.
which are also likely to be irrelevant for sun4v (there's no SBus on sun4v
and only some EBus devices). While at it fix some style bugs according to
style.Makefile(5) where appropriate.
MFC after: 3 days
loading for the QLogic cards.
Because isp(4) exists before the root is mounted, it's not really
possible for us to use the kernel's linker to load modules directly
from disk- that's really too bad.
However, the this is still a net win in in that the firmware has
been split up on a per chip (and in some cases, functionality)
basis, so the amount of stuff loaded *can* be substantially less
than the 1.5MB of firmware images that ispfw now manages. That is,
each specific f/w set is now also built as a module. For example,
QLogic 2322 f/w is built as isp_2322.ko and Initiator/Target 1080
firmware is built as isp_1080_it.ko.
For compatibility purposes (i.e., to perturb folks the least), we
also still build all of the firmware as one ispfw.ko module.
This allows us to let 'ispfw_LOAD' keep on working in existing
loader.conf files. If you now want to strip this down to just
the firmware for your h/w, you can then change loader.conf to
load the f/w you specifically want.
We also still allow for ispfw to be statically built (e.g., for
PAE and sparc64).
Future changes will look at f/w unloading and also role switching
that then uses the kernel linker to load different ips f/w sets.
MFC after: 2 months
