From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 12:18:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F271065672 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:18:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC238FC17 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so2291185qwj.13 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:18:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oz9p+YiaQgVvmYMP9EgNIqAAgzwCeezoV/TXf09T+0E=; b=maTVE+fNe1iBdLXYsg0lHYAsxgJZC8MsAhnTJ5fSfs4A8At92+gXlB7nR7IbxUR6bR TiXoh2hde68RdTMpHqfE6w+dshekl0LYILMWHd1A6bRaW0g1Gs2TrHSyepxI7gAq3fmG VOKDxwgpniLasczG9GPfSKjqA66y7ZjPBwelA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E+w+pZzfMH9lmYbjG4POcVmTVMq1fPXq7ZsKr/UVtKX6coEL91CoXnPAdGXk453HEY V6EKISeHHjnKFmGD+I9H7EY+zFsyZePl/zYFql2c+lOhk6KnoPgSA4aSg8NJhPPWsB6A 0kgyCpiCZpoBvhiXGQiN6YfRqNbhiKexDEVUE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.235.4 with SMTP id ke4mr2226975qcb.63.1297945138748; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.246.8 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:18:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D5D1075.2060708@my.gd> References: <4D5BF78E.7010306@digsys.bg> <4D5BFCC1.3010404@my.gd> <20110217110230.GB25240@e-Gitt.NET> <4D5D0165.1030000@my.gd> <20110217111010.GC25240@e-Gitt.NET> <4D5D1075.2060708@my.gd> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:18:58 +0000 Message-ID: From: Tom Evans To: Damien Fleuriot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:19:00 -0000 On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now, > we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project > still struggles with them (for reasons I don't know, might be LSI's > fault, might be a lack of resources or interest...) > > I'm having a very hard time defending the use of fbsd for firewalls at > work, with the recent release of debian kfreebsd. > Forgive my na=C3=AFvet=C3=A9, but surely kfreebsd would have precisely the = same issues with the same controllers, since it uses FreeBSD's kernel. Am I missing something? Cheers Tom