From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 10 17:09:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26931065670 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A1B8FC16 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8FB19E02A; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:09:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7CCE619E027; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:09:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4AF99E54.5020504@quip.cz> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:09:40 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200906092213.n59MDGg5027852@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200906092213.n59MDGg5027852@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" , Sean McAfee , "Frank J. Laszlo" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Vladimir Ermakov Subject: Re: New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:46 -0000 Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Sean McAfee writes: > | Frank J. Laszlo wrote: > |> Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > |>> Vladimir Ermakov wrote: > |>> > |>>> Hi, all. > |>>> please appreciate my port *megacli* > |>>> > |>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133655 > |>>> > |>> > |>> Is that different from this the port, is it an update? > |>> > |>> Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/linux-megacli > |> > |> Since the megacli application now has a native binary, should be not > |> DEPRICATE the linux version? > |> > |> Regards, > |> Frank Laszlo > | > | Probably not. I noted this when I originally filed the PR for > | linux-megacli2, but the 1.x, 2.x, and 4.x versions support dramatically > | different hardware lines. > | > | As an example, this native version is 4.x and does not support the Dell > | PERC5. > > I find this hard to believe and in my experience with a fresh download > from LSI's web-site the FreeBSD and Linux variants work just fine > on my PERC5's for things like -AdpAllInfo. There is no real firmware > interface difference between between the PERC5 and PERC6. So I don't > know where you get this from. Specifics in which things are broken > could be nice so I can look at getting them fixed. I put in the > management ioctl path that they use into FreeBSD a long time ago. > They did find some bugs in some new management features that are > fixed in 7.1 and I need to merge back to 6. Unfortunately, this work > happened after the last 6.X version was released :-( > > | IMO, linux-megacli, linux-megacli2, and megacli should all exist as > | independent ports. > > I would say not. Let's get rid of the Linux variant and use the FreeBSD > native ones. The FreeBSD should be a lot easier to run then the > Linux one and won't have the potential NFS hang issue that Linux does. > > It's nice to see the FreeBSD version and would be interesting to see > how much my hand was involved in that ... > > My employer's FreeBSD native tool works across all of the MegaRAID SAS > type cards and Dell servers that I've tried which pre-dates the MegaCLI > for FreeBSD. Prior versions of MegaCLI also did. I can't say I've > tried all options with the latest MegaCLI. Hi, I am little confused by all these MegaRAID utilities available in ports. (I am new to LSI MegaRAID). I have new Dell R610 with PERC6 identified as: mfi0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xdf180000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 What is the recommended tool to monitor (and manage) the state of the PERC6 array? I also found on LSI website, that newer FreeBSD MegaCli is available: 5.00.15 But I don't know if it supports previous HW or not. 4.00.11 Release Date: 02/19/2009 MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP MegaRAID SAS 8704EM2 MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2 MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP 5.00.15 Release Date: 10/20/2009 MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i MegaRAID SAS 9260DE-8i MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e MegaRAID SAS 9280DE-8e I don't know if later is addition to previous list or if it is exclusive list. Will current sysutils/megacli be updated to 5.00.15? Miroslav Lachman