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Emulex Corporation
 
README for the Driver kit 1.23a for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Adapters 
 
September 12, 2003
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This Application kit has been designed for the following environment:
 
- Supported Hardware architecture platforms:
 - 32-bit Intel platforms (IA-32)
 - 64-bit Intel platforms (IA-64)
 - Power PC 64 bits (PPC)

- Supported Linux OS (note that testing has been conducted only with the kernels in parenthesis):
 - Red Hat Pro 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-27)
 - Red Hat Pro 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-27)
 - Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 x86 (kernel 2.4.9-e.16)
 - SLES 7 x86 (kernel 2.4.16)
 - SLES 8 x86 (kernel 2.4.19)
 - Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 IA-64 (kernel 2.4.18-e.25)
 - SuSE 8.0 ppc64 (kernel 2.4.19-u11-ppc64)
 
- Supported Emulex enterprise adapters:
 - LP8000
 - LP9000
 - LP9002L
 - LP9002DC
 - LP9402DC
 - LP9802
 - LP10000
 - LP9802
 - LP10000
 
- This driver supports any mix of the above Emulex adapters within a single host system. 

Main driver features:
1. Full fabric support, discovery, FCP and fibre channel device/error and exception handling 
2. Concurrent multi-protocol (FCP and IP) support 
3. Supports INT13 (EDD 2.1/3.0) fabric boot.
4. This driver is entirely self-contained and intended for configuration using lpfc. No external utility is required or supported.
5. This driver will not be dependent on any non-open source program for its execution. It will not taint an open source kernel.
