IBM / LSI disk card & 10 Gbit broadcom NIC not detected

[Ivan Voras]

On 18/01/2011 23:28, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 21:29, Ivan Voras<ivoras at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a bleeding edge machine here with new hardware, unrecognized by
>> FreeBSD (stable and current). The RAID controller is a LSI/IBM-rebranded
>> product and the 10 gbit NICs are Broadcom's.
>>
>> I'd be interested in a (very) quick solution, especially for the disk
>> driver, otherwise I'll have to (quickly) install something else on the
>> server.
>>
>>
>> none2 at pci0:3:0:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x03b11014 chip=0x00731000
>
> Hi.
>
> LSI itself identifies that h/w with chip=0x00731000 as "Drake Skinny".
> As per my conversation with Scott Long some time ago, "the current driver in
> FreeBSD will work adequately for every MegaRAID SAS card except the "Skinny"
> and "Drake" models. There are some serious bugs in the code provided by LSI.
> First, they assume that only one adapter will be present in the system, and
> store per-instance data in a set of global variables."

Wait, LSI provides FreeBSD reference code? :))