NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO
The fp driver is a Sun Fibre Channel nexus driver that enables Fibre Channel topology discovery, device discovery, Fibre Channel adapter port management and other capabilities through well-defined Fibre Channel adapter driver interfaces.
The fp driver requires the presence of a fabric name server in fabric and public loop topologies to discover fibre channel devices. In private loop topologies, the driver discovers devices by performing PLOGI to all valid AL_PAs, provided that devices do not participate in LIRP and LILP stages of loop initialization.
32-bit ELF kernel driver
64-bit ELF kernel driver
fp driver configuration file
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Architecture | SPARC |
Interface stability | Unknown |
Availability | SUNWfctl |
prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), fctl(7D)
Writing Device Drivers,
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) ANSI X3.230: 1994,
Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-2) Project 1134-D,
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) ANSI X3.272-1996,
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP) ANSI X3.269-1996,
SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM) Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA) ANSI X3.270-1996,
SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA) NCITS TR-19:1998,
Fabric Loop Attachment (FC-FLA), NCITS TR-20:1998
NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO