BSDCan2009 - Final Release
BSDCan 2009
The Technical BSD Conference
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Sean Bruno |
| Schedule | |
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| Day | Talks - 1 - 2009-05-08 |
| Room | MNT 207 |
| Start time | 13:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 127 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Hacking |
| Language used for presentation | English |
Implementation of TARGET_MODE applications
How we used TARGET_MODE in the kernel to create and interesting product
This presentation will cover a real world implementation of the TARGET_MODE infrastructure in the kernel (stable/6).
Topics to include: drivers used (isp, aic7xxx, firewire). scsi_target userland code vs kernel drivers missing drivers (4/8G isp support, iSCSI target)
Target Mode describes a feature within certain drivers that allows a FreeBSD system to emulate a Target in the SCSI sense of the word. By recompiling your kernel with this feature enabled, it permits one to turn a FreeBSD system into an external hard disk. This feature of the FreeBSD kernel provides many interesting implementations and is highly desirable to many organizations whom run FreeBSD as their platform.
I have been tasked with the maintenance of a proprietary target driver that interfaces with the FreeBSD kernel to do offsite data mirroring at the block level. This talk will discuss the implementation of that kernel mode driver and the process my employer went through to implement a robust and flexible appliance.
Since I took over the implementation, we have implemented U160 SCSI(via aic7xxx), 2G Fibre Channel(via isp) and Firewire 400 (via sbp_targ). Each driver has it's own subtleties and requirements. I personally enhanced the existing Firewire target driver and was able to get some interesting results.
I hope to demonstrate a functional Firewire 400/800 target and show how useful this application can be for the embedded space. Also, I wish to demonstrate the need for iSCSI. USB and 4/8G Fibre Channel target implementations that use the TARGET_MODE infrastructure that is currently in place to allow others to expand their various interface types.
The presentation should consist of a high level overview, followed by detailed implementation instructions with regards to the Firewire implementation and finish up with a hands-on demonstration with a FreeBSD PC flipped into TARGET_MODE and a Mac.