From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 19:44:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B06106566B; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BCD8FC18; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (pool-98-109-39-197.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [98.109.39.197]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB36646B3B; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0KJhaUw026295; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Patrick Hurrelmann Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:07:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200901072152.n07Lql7h000807@svn.freebsd.org> <200901151031.42725.jhb@freebsd.org> <20090120104612.2224983f@attini-ws2> In-Reply-To: <20090120104612.2224983f@attini-ws2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901201307.30983.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:09 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/8881/Tue Jan 20 09:48:51 2009 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186878 - head/sys/dev/mpt X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:44:17 -0000 On Tuesday 20 January 2009 4:46:12 am Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:31:42 -0500 > John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 4:52:47 pm Marius Strobl wrote: > > > Author: marius > > > Date: Wed Jan 7 21:52:47 2009 > > > New Revision: 186878 > > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186878 > > > > > > Log: > > > Make the whole initiator mode part of mpt(4) endian-clean, > > > specifically SPI controllers now also work in big-endian > > > machines and some conversions relevant for FC and SAS > > > controllers as well as support for ILP32 machines which all > > > were omitted in previous attempts are now also implemented. > > > The IOCTL-interface is intentionally left (and where needed > > > actually changed) to be completely little-endian as otherwise > > > we would have to add conversion code for every possible > > > configuration page to mpt(4), which didn't seem the right > > > thing to do, neither did converting only half of the user- > > > interface to the native byte order. > > > This change was tested on amd64 (SAS+SPI), i386 (SAS) and > > > sparc64 (SAS+SPI). Due to lack of the necessary hardware > > > the target mode code is still left to be made endian-clean. > > > > > > Reviewed by: scottl > > > MFC after: 1 month > > > > If you wish to test the mpt_user interface on a big-endian machine > > you may use //depot/jhb/raid/usr.sbin/mptutil/... > > > > It is likely going to need a lot of sprinkled htole*() and letoh*() > > though. > > Hi John, > > great to hear that! I just checked out mptutil on 7.0 and it works > fine with a bunch of Dell PERC 5iR :) > > Do you mind if i grab the sources and create a port of it? I guess many > people are eagerly waiting to monitor their mpt arrays as stated on > several lists. This would also give mptutil a much greater base of > testers. Actually, I probably want to commit it into HEAD. If you want a monitoring daemon you can look at 'mptd' in the same p4 branch (and 'ard' for monitoring ata-raid volumes). -- John Baldwin