IBM M1015 support

[Desai, Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> scsi at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin Nilsson
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 1:46 PM
> To: freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: IBM M1015 support
> 
> It is probably supported by LSI:s mfi driver that is available on their
> web.
> It is horrible (32/64 bit unclean) and hard to install but it supports
> the skinny cards (9240) as well as the thunderbolt 9265/9285.
> 
> Are there any effort going on to bring support for these cards into the
> stock mfi driver?
YES, LSI has plan to do mfi drivers changes in order to fix basic need for customers.

I am not sure which freebsd version will be the first one to get those changes in.
As of now I have this much information to share so wait for some more time to get more info.

~ Kashyap

> 
> On 2012-02-26 03:04, bsalinux at gmail.com wrote:
> > I installed a new kernel with thmodified mfi_pci.c. Dmesg reports the
> device
> >
> > mfi0:<IBM ServeRAID M1015>  port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
> > 0xfe460000-0xfe463fff,0xfe400000-0xfe43ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> > pci1
> > mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00
> > mfi0: Frame 0xffffff80002b0000 timed out command 0xCB6B4040
> > mfi0: failed to send init command
> > device_attach: mfi0 attach returned 60
> >
> > but it fails to init.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM,
> bsalinux at gmail.com<bsalinux at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Does this line look good?
> >>
> >>   {0x1000, 0x0073, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, "IBM ServeRAID
> >> M1015"}, /* M1015  */
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Michael
> Fuckner<michael at fuckner.net>  wrote:
> >>> Good evening,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> none3 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x03b11014
> chip=0x00731000
> >>>> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
> >>>>      vendor     = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
> >>>>      device     = 'MegaRAID SAS 9240'
> >>>>      class      = mass storage
> >>>>      subclass   = RAID
> >>>
> >>> this looks like mfi (in Linux: megaraid_sas) should be responsible
> for
> >>> accessing this card.
> >>> Did you try to add device-ID into mfi_pci.c?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>   Michael!
> >>>
> >>>
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