LSI 1030 mpt doesn't work if I build a new kernel

[eculp at bafirst.com]

Quoting Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com>:

>>
>> Is the LSI-MPT BIOS disabled on your machine?  I found that I had to
>> start enabling it, otherwise the driver does something at boot that
>> makes the MPT chip stop responding.  It didn't use to be that way.
>
>
> *shrug*
>
> For LSI-MPT BIOS that comes from a motherboard rather than being on a
> card, you *have* to have it enabled for it to function at all as the
> microcode is loaded by the BIOS. Claiming that it  "didn't use to be
> that way" seems a bit odd. But feel free to file a bug at
> http://www.feral.com/bugzilla.
>
Initially and for several months it worked fine then one day it just 
wouldn't boot a new kernel but it boots a kernel from June just fine.  
Would that not be "used to" ;)  Thanks,

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