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Linux 2.4 Montevista 4-port Fibre Channel device driver and configuration application |
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Each fibre channel runs at a rate of 1Gbps (that is one gigabit per second). A true challenge to support four interfaces with received messages stored on high-bandwidth SCSI disk drives. The realtime extensions to Linux provided by Montevista went a long way in helping achieve line rates, with Linux application software and fibre channel ASIC device drivers running on a 400Mhz PowerQUICC MPC8260. All software was written in C with the Montevista provided GNU tool chain. BDI JTAG emulators were used for debugging.
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