[freebsd-amd64] RE: [freebsd-amd64] Re: [freebsd-amd64]Possible 3ware 8506-12SATA Controller issues...

Vinod Kashyap vkashyap at amcc.com
Wed Jun 23 11:54:32 GMT 2004 

> 
> The AMD64/64 bit support I was told would work in FreeBSD; not in the
> email below but by two different techs over the phone and nobody has
> called that as the reason for my troubles.
> 
> Are you telling me that the GENERIC twa should work fine for the 9500
> series of 3ware controllers? Careful, apparently this 
> controller is only a
> month old.
> 
I am telling you it should "build" fine since I haven't heard of build
problems during the nightly builds of the FreeBSD cvs repository.

> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> 
> >
> > I can't speak for Victor, but I did talk to him this afternoon,
> > and he (and other support people) couldn't recall telling anyone
> > that 3ware supports FreeBSD amd64.  There might have been 
> some miscommunication/misunderstandings since 3ware does support amd64
> > on Linux and Windows.  Even in the thread below, I don't see
> > him mention FreeBSD amd64.  Of course, the problem you had was
> > on amd64, and I don't know if he realized it.  The "different OS
> > versions" probably refers to 4.x and 5.x.
> >
> > Anyways, I am sorry about any miscommunications, but as far as my
> > knowledge goes, there's not even been a FreeBSD amd64 version of the
> > driver built here, let alone tested.  As about future plans, it
> > might happen if there's sufficient interest, but at this point,
> > there's none.
> >
> > Also, I wonder why you ran into build problems!  twa has been
> > in /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC for sometime now, and no build problems
> > have been reported so far.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mike [mailto:mike at mike2k.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:35 PM
> > > To: Peter Losher
> > > Cc: Vinod Kashyap; freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org;
> > > freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: [freebsd-amd64] Re: [freebsd-amd64] Re: 
> [freebsd-amd64] Possible
> > > 3ware 8506-12
> > > SATA Controller issues...
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is the last response I received from Victor:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Victor Pacheco wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, Mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am told by our engineer 5.2.1 is not supported nor we support
> > > recompiling against newer kernels.  He wrote:
> > > > "FreeBSD is unlike Linux in that you can't use driver
> > > source to compile
> > > a driver for different OS versions.
> > > Customers must have the compiled version of the driver for
> > > their except
> > > FreeBSD version or it will not work.
> > > > Also, it was my understanding that the 9500S series does
> > > not yet support
> > > FreeBSD.  The driver is not on the
> > > shipping CD or the web."
> > > >
> > > > I have passed this on to my manager (this does not make
> > > sense) since we
> > > have the released driver/source.
> > > > I need to know if it should compile with 5.2.1.
> > > >
> > > > I just shot the email and wait to here back.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Victor Pacheco
> > > > Technical Support Engineer
> > >
> > > And here is the error I emailed him. I followed the
> > > instructions from the
> > > manual, which were slightly outdated. Like it says
> > > "twa_opt.h" instead of
> > > "opt_twa.h" - but I did everything I could to compile this far.
> > >
> > > > [root at raid01 twa]# ls -1 /usr/src/sys/dev/twa
> > > > Makefile
> > > > twa.c
> > > > twa.h
> > > > twa_cam.c
> > > > twa_externs.h
> > > > twa_freebsd.c
> > > > twa_fwimg.c
> > > > twa_globals.c
> > > > twa_includes.h
> > > > twa_ioctl.h
> > > > twa_reg.h
> > > >
> > > > [root at raid01 twa]# grep twa /usr/src/sys/conf/options
> > > > TWA_DEBUG               opt_twa.h
> > > >
> > > > [root at raid01 twa]# grep twa /usr/src/sys/conf/files.amd64
> > > > dev/twa/twa.c           optional twa
> > > > dev/twa/twa_cam.c       optional twa
> > > > dev/twa/twa_freebsd.c   optional twa
> > > > dev/twa/twa_fwimg.c     optional twa
> > > > dev/twa/twa_globals.c   optional twa
> > > >
> > > > [root at raid01 twa]# grep twa /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/RAID01
> > > > device          twa             # 3ware ATA RAID
> > > >
> > > > i get an error trying to compile it. if i keep the
> > > TWA_DEBUG out of the
> > > > options file, when i try to "make depend" it says
> > > "opt_twa.h not found"
> > > -
> > > > even though i don't want debugging. so i have to put 
> that in and it
> > > shuts
> > > > up.
> > > >
> > > > here's the error:
> > > >
> > > > [root at raid01 conf]# config RAID01
> > > > Kernel build directory is ../compile/RAID01
> > > > Don't forget to do a ``make depend''
> > > > [root at raid01 conf]# cd ../compile/RAID01
> > > > [root at raid01 RAID01]# make depend
> > > > rm -f .olddep
> > > > if [ -f .depend ]; then mv .depend .olddep; fi
> > > > make _kernel-depend
> > > > if [ -f .olddep ]; then mv .olddep .depend; fi
> > > > rm -f .newdep
> > > > make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES -V GEN_M_CFILES |
> > > > MKDEP_CPP="cc -E" CC="cc" xargs mkdep -a -f .newdep -O 
> -pipe  -Wall
> > > > -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
> > > > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual
> > > > -fformat-extensions -std=c99  -nostdinc -I-  -I. -I../../..
> > > > -I../../../contrib/dev/acpica -I../../../contrib/ipfilter
> > > > -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/dev/ath/freebsd
> > > > -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include 
> opt_global.h -fno-common
> > > > -finline-limit=20000 -fno-strict-aliasing  -mcmodel=kernel
> > > -mno-red-zone
> > > > -mfpmath=387 -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow  
> -msoft-float
> > > > -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding
> > > > make -V SFILES |  MKDEP_CPP="cc -E" xargs mkdep -a -f .newdep -x
> > > > assembler-with-cpp -DLOCORE -O -pipe  -Wall -Wredundant-decls
> > > > -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes
> > > -Wpointer-arith
> > > > -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -std=c99
> > > -nostdinc -I-  -I.
> > > > -I../../.. -I../../../contrib/dev/acpica 
> -I../../../contrib/ipfilter
> > > > -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/dev/ath/freebsd
> > > > -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include 
> opt_global.h -fno-common
> > > > -finline-limit=20000 -fno-strict-aliasing  -mcmodel=kernel
> > > -mno-red-zone
> > > > -mfpmath=387 -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow  
> -msoft-float
> > > > -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding
> > > > rm -f .depend
> > > > mv .newdep .depend
> > > > [root at raid01 RAID01]# make
> > > > linking kernel
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_cam_setup':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `cam_simq_alloc'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x58): undefined reference to `cam_sim_alloc'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x70): undefined reference to `cam_simq_free'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x8d): undefined reference to `xpt_bus_register'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0xa2): undefined reference to `cam_sim_free'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `xpt_create_path'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0xe8): undefined reference to 
> `xpt_bus_deregister'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0xf9): undefined reference to `cam_sim_free'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x114): undefined reference to `xpt_setup_ccb'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x143): undefined reference to `xpt_action'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_cam_detach':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x176): undefined reference to `xpt_free_path'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x191): undefined reference to 
> `xpt_bus_deregister'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x1a2): undefined reference to `cam_sim_free'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_execute_scsi':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x408): undefined reference to `xpt_done'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_action':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x58f): undefined reference to 
> `cam_calc_geometry'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x650): undefined reference to `xpt_done'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_request_bus_scan':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x6b9): undefined reference to `xpt_periph'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x6ca): undefined reference to `xpt_create_path'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x6e0): undefined reference to `xpt_setup_ccb'
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x701): undefined reference to `xpt_action'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_bus_scan_cb':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x730): undefined reference to `xpt_free_path'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_scsi_complete':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x87b): undefined reference to `xpt_done'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_drain_busy_queue':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x8d9): undefined reference to `xpt_done'
> > > > twa_cam.o: In function `twa_disallow_new_requests':
> > > > twa_cam.o(.text+0x951): undefined reference to `xpt_freeze_simq'
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > >
> > > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/RAID01.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Peter Losher wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Any word on work on a amd64-compatible driver? (mike seemed
> > > to indicate that a
> > > > amd64 driver for the 9xxx series might come later this summer?)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Tried compiling a 5.2.1 kernel w/ the twe driver plopped
> > > from -CURRENT
> > > > cvsup'ed 30 minutes ago, and it didn't go to well:
> > > >
> > > > -=-
> > > >
> > > > If there is something I can hack in to twe_freebsd.c to get
> > > it to compile
> > > > under 5.2.1, I am all ears.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I myself would love this. I'd pay $250 cash to expedite this
> > > fix. Someone
> > > could work directly with someone at 3ware and get 9500 matured, at
> > > least... I wonder if I tried -current if my 9500 would work
> > > better. Is it
> > > still based off the 7xxx series driver though?
> > >
> > > At this point I've got hardware and software can't handle it.
> > > It's sort of
> > > discouraging, usually it's the opposite. I might pay up 
> to $500 to get
> > > this going. It's worth it that much to get this damn thing
> > > fixed so I can
> > > send this box back east and get it into production =)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -Peter
> > > > --
> > > > Peter_Losher at isc.org | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits
> > > must flow"
> > > >
> > >
> >
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