docs/135712: Man page and hardware release notes for mfi(4) should be updated

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 19 17:10:59 UTC 2009


On Thursday 18 June 2009 12:49:09 pm Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> >Number:         135712
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       Man page and hardware release notes for mfi(4) should be 
updated
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          doc-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 18 16:50:02 UTC 2009
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Michael Gmelin
> >Release:        7.2-RELEASE
> >Organization:
> /bin/done digital solutions GmbH
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD srv02 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Thu May 14 00:07:23 UTC 
2009     root at srv02:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> >Description:
> Afaik the mfi(4) driver also supports the following devices for quite a 
while now:
> 
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 1078
> Dell PERC5
> Dell PERC6
> 
> man mfi(4) and the hardware release notes only mentions the following 
hardware:
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E
> Dell PERC5/i
> 
> -CURRENT has this corrected for a long time now, I've seen reports about 
PERC6 working in 6.3 and 7.0 one and a half years ago:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039686.html
> 
> This should be updated, so people can make informed decisions when buying 
hardware that's supported by FreeBSD.

Yes, looks like the manpage update just needs to be MFC'd.

-- 
John Baldwin



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