[Pkg-fcoe-general] fcoe-utils in squeeze-backports

[Mike_Pennington at DELL.com]

Hi Ritesh,

Apologies for top-posting... I haven't taken the time to find the right settings in Outlook to properly >-quote replies...

I have an R710 with an Intel X520-T2 card; I believe it is supported in fcoe-utils.  I can certainly perform testing, although the optimal scenario would be that I have the test config in a VirtualBox... do you see a problem with that?

Thoughts?
\m

-----Original Message-----
From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf [mailto:rrs at researchut.com] On Behalf Of Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:26 AM
To: Pennington, Mike
Cc: pkg-fcoe-general at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: fcoe-utils in squeeze-backports

On 11/19/2011 12:55 AM, Mike_Pennington at DELL.com wrote:
> I am rather interested in getting fcoe-utils into squeeze-backports... 
> is there some work I could do to make this happen?
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> I must confess that I am not a Debian package maintainer (or even 
> familiar with the process), but the functionality is important enough 
> to my job and work group that I would not mind contributing what I can 
> to assist.  If I may be of assistance, could someone provide a pointer 
> to the steps required to get fcoe-utils into squeeze backports?
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> Thoughts?
> 


FCoE is not in any of the release yet. You'll see, it is only in the experimental archive. The reason being, I wasn't able to get access to the FCoE hardware for Debian, as I had hoped.

If you can help test with FCoE stack for Debian, I can work with you.
Let me know.

For Squeeze, I don't think much can be done. This stack is not in Squeeze, so I'm not sure if the policy allows to push it to its backports. We can definitely do it for Wheezy.



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