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