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.

/kernel/drv/fp

32-bit ELF kernel driver

/kernel/drv/sparcv9/fp

64-bit ELF kernel driver

/kernel/drv/fp.conf

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