From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 17 17:31:33 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 1219D106566B for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:31:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@lissyara.su) Received: from mx.lissyara.su (mx.lissyara.su [91.227.18.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A218FC12 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [79.164.50.20] (port=38640 helo=dc7700p.lissyara.su) by mx.lissyara.su with esmtpa (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1S8xTQ-000I8F-Pn for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:31:24 +0400 Message-ID: <4F64CA6C.5000009@lissyara.su> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:31:24 +0400 From: Alex Keda User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120314 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <201203161539.q2GFdZPr047410@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <201203161539.q2GFdZPr047410@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-White-List: YES X-Spam-Description: if spam count > 60 - this is spam X-Spam-Count: 0 X-Descriptions: powered by www.lissyara.su X-Bounce-ID: mx.lissyara.su 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: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:31:33 -0000 On 16.03.2012 19:39, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > 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. Good news! How about new hardware?