Re: Where is hptrr kernel module in 13.3 ?

On 7/9/24 15:17, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:39:30 +0200, William Dudley wrote:
>> I wanted to use an old "RocketRaid 1740" SATA PCI card in a machine,
>> and that requires the "hptrr" driver.  This page:
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/hardware/
>>
>> Suggests it's part of the 13.3 release, but I cannot find anything but
>> a man page for it on my 13.3 systems (all three of them).
>>
>> Further, I installed the source tree (using git) because I though
>> maybe I had to build the module, but hptrr isn't mentioned at
>> all in the /usr/src/sys/amd64/GENERIC file, so I can't "enable" it
>> to be built as part of the kernel.
> It is listed in sys/amd64/conf/NOTES.
>
>  From /usr/src/UPDATING:
>
> 20191003:
>          The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from
>          GENERIC.  They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding
>          to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES",
>          hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively.
>
> But none of the 13.x-RELEASE kernel.txz (amd64) include the mentioned modules.
> I guess you should open a PR at bugs.freebsd.org. Maybe this can be
> fixed for 13.4-RELEASE.
>
> Have you tried to build your own kernel with "device hptrr"?

i've got a system running CURRENT and can confirm those modules are 
present, i would also assume they are there on 13.x as well. what does 
"ls /boot/kernel/hpt*" show on your system? -pete

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