From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 16:06:13 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 76B7C106566C for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:06:13 +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 5414B8FC0A for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:06:13 +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; 31 Mar 2012 09:06:14 -0700 Received: from ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by internal.ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2VG672i024174; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q2VG66FC024172; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <201203311606.q2VG66FC024172@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <4F64CA6C.5000009@lissyara.su> To: Alex Keda Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:06:06 -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" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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, 31 Mar 2012 16:06:13 -0000 Alex Keda writes: | 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? Although delayed due to finding some header issues when I tested creating RAID's this is now in -current ... and yes it supports all known MFI type cards. Doug A.