From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 18 20:06:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D3E106566C for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:06:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDC68FC14 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcmm1 with SMTP id m1so8056806vcm.13 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:06:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zR/67R0aqlHcEyO7ApAYh1Nw2a30bsvKjtgbjgzit20=; b=w0w27qBVcP/mSWWLphQR2gOGwVZw0Z0plpBeb0aCk1UQyBb/8HInHVGlEqVYyDlWDi 2PbaWewsiXU6hSycDXRf5GVyG7uj48mh0tIht/gvXPS6Ucbc72nFVn4MaRHSbYMelcMR 6Wc1cKtvLjApcGlHh60Cp7gZ/rkFFJ+BqgUU4tVLofIYiqRFnFdCjsA6TaR8lbizlfHT 8g4sc9a4zY6HCD15Nt9PQdDXxOmhQlMEzAqU3oeisAee6zYhBee2390mSbwEpkZYmvbk zFd+wKFTu+Zz7TZV6ltaiKszddEUPqMpnj58djBd6VBxS/lqLyBTMwsY3NB9yhpGk3MO rKdg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.227.67 with SMTP id iz3mr3598168vcb.64.1332101198328; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.2.130 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:06:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201203161539.q2GFdZPr047410@ambrisko.com> References: <201203161539.q2GFdZPr047410@ambrisko.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:06:38 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Doug Ambrisko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: projects/mfi_head to -current next week X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:06:39 -0000 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrot= e: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to start merging mfi(4) from projects/head_mfi into -current > next week. =A0The mfi(4) driver is stable and I don't know of any issues > with it now. =A0I fixed a few issues that I knew of this past week. =A0Se= veral > people have contributed to this. =A0LSI did the base HW support. =A0This > update supports all current mfi based cards. =A0It supports JBOD via crea= ting > /sys/mfisyspd* entries for each disk. =A0When a disk is pulled from the > controller the node goes away and when a disk is inserted it creates an > entry. =A0Using a fairly new MegaCli, it can also control how JBOD suppor= t > works. =A0We may need to update our port. =A0This JBOD support is not the= same > as CAM pass through that some have hacked to make disks appear as da*. > > Several people are using this driver now so I feel it is stable enough > to hit the tree. =A0More eyes and people using this will make it better. > This new HW is showing up more and more in new systems so it will make > it easier for people to use FreeBSD on these machines and have it just > work. > > Thanks to LSI for the initial HW support and all of the people that have > been testing and getting it in shape to commit. Hi Doug! I was wondering if the project could be updated to CURRENT and a patch be generated for it against CURRENT so people could test out the new code (I'd really like to try this out on my box at home). Thanks! -Garrett