From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 15:39:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0B11065676 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: from mail.ambrisko.com (mail.ambrisko.com [70.91.206.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9B08FC14 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:39:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Ambrisko-Me: Yes Received: from server2.ambrisko.com (HELO internal.ambrisko.com) ([192.168.1.2]) by ironport.ambrisko.com with ESMTP; 16 Mar 2012 08:39:41 -0700 Received: from ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by internal.ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2GFdZlq047411 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q2GFdZPr047410 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <201203161539.q2GFdZPr047410@ambrisko.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:39:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124d (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: 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: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:39:41 -0000 Hi folks, I'd like to start merging mfi(4) from projects/head_mfi into -current next week. The mfi(4) driver is stable and I don't know of any issues with it now. I fixed a few issues that I knew of this past week. Several people have contributed to this. LSI did the base HW support. This update supports all current mfi based cards. It supports JBOD via creating /sys/mfisyspd* entries for each disk. When a disk is pulled from the controller the node goes away and when a disk is inserted it creates an entry. Using a fairly new MegaCli, it can also control how JBOD support works. We may need to update our port. This 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. More 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. Doug A.