From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 08:20:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E32A16A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mizar.origin-it.net (mizar.origin-it.net [194.8.96.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BA343FA3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: from matar.hbg.de.int.atosorigin.com (dehsfw3e.origin-it.net [194.8.96.68])h9DFKaT9032440 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: from galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com (galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com [161.89.20.4])ESMTP id h9DFKZno079859; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: (from hmo@localhost) by galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com (8.9.3p2/8.9.3/hmo30mar03) id RAA04960; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200310131520.RAA04960@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> In-Reply-To: <20031006120920.GC31567@saboteur.dek.spc.org> from Bruce M Simpson at "Oct 6, 2003 2: 9:20 pm" To: bms@spc.org (Bruce M Simpson) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Helge Oldach X-Address: Atos Origin GmbH, Friesenstraße 13, D-20097 Hamburg, Germany X-Phone: +49 40 7886 7464, Fax: +49 40 7886 9464, Mobile: +49 160 4782517 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: chuck@NetBSD.org cc: matt@domsch.com Subject: Re: afaapps port committed to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:20:43 -0000 Hi, I may sound ignorant, but what is wrong with the FreeBSD-native aaccli utility that can be downloaded from Adaptec (5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip)? I have been using this for some time now with success. May I suggest to make a port out of this as well? Helge Bruce M Simpson: >Hi, > >I'm a FreeBSD src committer who deals with Dell hardware a lot. I've just >committed a port of afaapps to FreeBSD. I should be grateful if you could >add this to your extremely useful list of resources. > >Please pass on my sincere thanks to your colleagues at Dell for providing us >with these tools. > >I've tested the tools with Scott Long's aac(4) driver. This has a >passthrough >for the ioctls which the afacli tool uses. Version 2.7 of the tools, with a >PowerEdge 2400 chassis' Dell PERC 2/Si running firmware 2.1, work perfectly >under Linux emulation in FreeBSD 4.9-RC. > >I understand that Dell do not officially support FreeBSD; members of the >Project certainly hope that will change in future, as the forthcoming 5.2 >release is looking very promising. I also understand that distribution >restrictions exist on Dell software, therefore the port has been marked >RESTRICTED (binaries will not be distributed as part of FreeBSD releases), >in accordance with Dell's wishes. > >Kind regards, >Bruce M. Simpson <---> bms@spc.org / bms@FreeBSD.org / vm/net hacker >