LSI supported mps(4) driver available

[Jason Wolfe]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken at freebsd.org>
> > To: <freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM
> > Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available
> >
> >
> > >
> > >The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb
> SAS
> > >HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here:
> > >
> > >http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt
> > >
> > >I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into stable/9 a
> > >week after that most likely.
> >
> > Great to see this being done, thanks to everyone! Be even better to see
> > this MFC'ed to 8.x as well if all goes well. Do you think this will
> > possible?
>
> Yes, that should be doable as well.  It's unlikely that all of the CAM
> changes will get merged back, but the driver itself shouldn't be a problem.
>
>  Ken
>

Just in case this needs a bit more fuel, bringing it back to 8.x would be
quite welcome for many who are having issues with the bugs in the current
driver.  One of the more troubling being smartctl having the ability to
crash a system when run on a disk with tags > 2.  I had started up a thread
back in Nov regarding it and found that the LSI binary driver did in fact
handle the issue gracefully -
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2011-November/005091.html.

Thank you sir!

Jason Wolfe