svn commit: r198496 - in stable/7: etc etc/mtree include sys sys/contrib/pf sys/dev/mfi usr.sbin usr.sbin/acpi usr.sbin/adduser usr.sbin/arp usr.sbin/bluetooth usr.sbin/bluetooth/btpand usr.sbin/bl...

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 26 October 2009 3:21:10 pm pluknet wrote:
> 2009/10/26 John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>:
> > Author: jhb
> > Date: Mon Oct 26 18:57:57 2009
> > New Revision: 198496
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198496
> >
> > Log:
> >  MFC 196200,196211,196280-196282:
> >  Introduce mfiutil, a basic utility for managing LSI SAS-RAID & Dell 
PERC5/6
> >  controllers.  Controller, array, and drive status can be checked, basic
> >  attributes can be changed, and arrays and spares can be created and 
deleted.
> >  Controller firmware can also be flashed.
> >
> >  This does not replace MegaCLI, found in ports, as that is officially 
sanctioned
> >  and supported by LSI and includes vastly more functionality.  However, 
mfiutil
> >  is open source and guaranteed to provide basic functionality, which can 
be
> >  especially useful if you have a problem and can't get MegaCLI to work.
> >
> 
> John, thank you very much for mfc'ing those nice mfi- and mptutil!
> It's interesting to know if this can be mfc'ed to 6 safely in principle,
> without breaking some of existing interfaces.
> I tried to use both on 6, and my experience was quite successful.

They should both work fine on 6, though I do not have any plans to MFC them
in FreeBSD itself.  mfiutil has even been known to work on 4.x. :)  Also, 8.0 
will ship before 7.3. :)

-- 
John Baldwin