Testing new mpr driver

[Borja Marcos]

On May 7, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> I'm keen to try the mpr driver and have LSI 9300-4i/4i4e
> HBAs plus a 12 Gbps SSD and SAS-2 bits to test with it.
> [Free-standing SAS-3 expanders are not common (but Areca just
> released one).]
> 
> My FreeBSD system is at 10.0-RELEASE-p2 and moving it to
> -STABLE looks like a fair amount of pain. Further I can see
> nothing on the FreeBSD site about the mpr driver. Could you
> supply links to any information about this driver? Is it
> likely to appear in 10.0-RELEASE-p? any time soon?

I've developed a habit of checking the Subversion tree, and I noticed a note in -STABLE, 
the addition of the mpr(4) driver.

I guess  it will be on 10.1, as it has been committed to -STABLE.

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=265388

If you, for example, svnup your source tree to the latest and compile, you should have a new driver in GENERIC, called mpr.





Borja.