>PS: what's up with Oracle's kernel, anyways? Their git tree doesn't seem to have been updated in ages:
Are you surprised? Ever since the acquisition thing, everything has practically come to a halt. Last entry of onnv (below) is just about the same timeframe unbreakable.git stopped being updated.
changeset: 13149:b23a4dab3d50
tag: tip
date: Wed Aug 18 15:52:48 2010 -0600
summary: 6973228 Cannot download firmware 2.103.x.x on Emulex FCoE HBAs