emlxs(7D)

Name

emlxs - Emulex-Sun LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapter driver

Synopsis

SUNW,emlxs

Description

The emlxs host bus adapter driver is a Sun Fibre Channel transport layer-compliant nexus driver for the Emulex Light-Pulse family of Fibre Channel adapters. These adapters support Fibre Channel SCSI and IP Protocols, FC-AL public loop profile, point-to-point fabric connection and Fibre Channel service classes two and three.

The emlxs driver interfaces with the Sun Fibre Channel transport layer to support the standard functions provided by the SCSA interface. It supports auto request sense and tagged queueing by default. The driver requires that all devices have unique hard addresses in private loop configurations. Devices with conflicting hard addresses are not accessible.

The emlxs driver also supports the SR-IOV capability on the Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel PCIe Universal Host Bus Adapter. In the SR-IOV enabled mode, it supports the physical function and virtual function of the adapter. Point-to-point fabric connections are not supported in the SR-IOV enabled mode.

Files

/kernel/drv/amd/emlxs

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/sparcv9/emlxs

64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).

/kernel/drv/emlxs.conf

Driver configuration file

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Architecture SPARC, x86 Availability driver/fc/emlxs

See also

prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4) , fcp(7D), fp(7d)

Writing Device Drivers

ANSI X3.230:1994, Fibre Channel Physical Signaling (FC-PH)

Project 1134-D, Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-2)

ANSI X3.269-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

ANSI X3.270-1996, Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-SCSI)

ANSI X3.270-1996, SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM)

Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA)

Fabric Loop Attachment (FC-FLA)