From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 01:43:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036D9106566B; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nitroboost@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B008FC12; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcwo16 with SMTP id wo16so2136218obc.13 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:43:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0y2n7DJDYke6raqKuSD4kjN625/Mo1g8/GQOhyYGI3w=; b=EJ8BeknbTR32Y4mLxqn+9GQEVZwVgbW3ClbHyPMx+SroFMWhChVYoTXDD+xxBobpOA yRCb/0Dg914Zo/oeI8TE+ioenab2WppmXDGnC94TUZMUrEJKoo7F0JrNgxYDeBD9BU30 K3g8Tb0S0P2tALEQ9Rnj5u8XRWvPzyRHSGNsU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.222.102 with SMTP id ql6mr136608obc.2.1327108650366; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.225.100 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120120232841.GA71874@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: <20120120204459.GA51162@nargothrond.kdm.org> <72898EA27A61484885D72A06BD9CECE8@multiplay.co.uk> <20120120232841.GA71874@nargothrond.kdm.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:17:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jason Wolfe To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:43:51 -0000 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" > > To: ; > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM > > Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available > > > > > > > > > >The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb > SAS > > >HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: > > > > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt > > > > > >I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into stable/9 a > > >week after that most likely. > > > > Great to see this being done, thanks to everyone! Be even better to see > > this MFC'ed to 8.x as well if all goes well. Do you think this will > > possible? > > Yes, that should be doable as well. It's unlikely that all of the CAM > changes will get merged back, but the driver itself shouldn't be a problem. > > Ken > Just in case this needs a bit more fuel, bringing it back to 8.x would be quite welcome for many who are having issues with the bugs in the current driver. One of the more troubling being smartctl having the ability to crash a system when run on a disk with tags > 2. I had started up a thread back in Nov regarding it and found that the LSI binary driver did in fact handle the issue gracefully - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2011-November/005091.html. Thank you sir! Jason Wolfe