IBM M1015 support

bsalinux at gmail.com bsalinux at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 03:21:11 UTC 2012


Thanks for the suggestion Doug.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at ambrisko.com> wrote:
> bsalinux at gmail.com writes:
> | Kashyap,
> |
> | Where can I find the current version of mfi driver from LSI?
> |
> | One of the threads pointed at
> | http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/4.23_FreeBSD_SAS_Driver.zip
> | but looks like it no longer exist. Supposedly this driver supports IBM
> | ServeRAID M1015.
> |
> | I looked at the downloads section on individual product pages but
> | couldn't find it there.
> |
> | Any help would be appreciated.
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
> | On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai at lsi.com> wrote:
> | > YES, LSI has plan to do mfi drivers changes in order to fix basic need
> | > for customers.
> | >
> | > I am not sure which freebsd version will be the first one to get those
> | > changes in.  As of now I have this much information to share so wait
> | > for some more time to get more info.
>
> There is the project in svn.freebsd.org
>        base/projects/head_mfi
>
> that should support all current LSI mfi(4) based cards.  We are pretty
> close to getting it merged in FreeBSD.  There was a bug I needed to
> fix to not act on AEN notifications while booting and more style clean
> ups.  It is in pretty good shape when you enable hw.mfi.msi=1.  I'm going
> to make that the default.
>
> The driver came from LSI with a bunch more work from some FreeBSD developers
> to get it into a form that can be part of FreeBSD.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug A.


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