New LSI mps driver for 9.0

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 3/8/12 6:33 PM, Desai, Kashyap wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:00 PM
>> To: Johan Hendriks
>> Cc: freebsd-stable
>> Subject: Re: New LSI mps driver for 9.0
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to get a 'official' patch for the latest LSI mps driver
>> for
>>> 9.0 RELEASE.
>>
>> There are patches floating around for mpslsi(4) for 9.0.
>>
>> And, if you upgrade to stable/9, mps(4) *is* the official driver from
>> LSI.
> I know it is bad timing. FreeBSD-9 mps very old driver. You should migrate to FreeBSD-9-stable and if you want just pick <mps> driver from there and port it to FreeBSD-9-RELEASE.
> 
> ~ Kashyap
> 


Kashyap, do you see any problem with taking the mps(4) driver from
stable/9 and compiling/installing it on stable/8 ?

If you can't see a huge problem forthcoming, I'd be willing to try that
and validate it works as advertised.