Management interface for cards powered by the "mfi" driver?

[Ruben van Staveren]

On 18 Jun 2008, at 16:07, Stefan Lambrev wrote:

>> Last time I checked it was still 2.6.12. it still is set to that  
>> value on our 2950's (running 6.2 and linux_base-fc-4_9)
> I never saw 2.6.12 in documentation, but you may be right. Tough in  
> ports/UPDATING only 2.6.16 is mention.
> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/netchild/category/freebsd/linuxolator/  
> speaks also only for 2.6.16 :)

I got this from reading the commit message of r1.5 of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c

I don't know what the change set between 2.6.12 and 2.6.16 is  
regarding the linuxolator. As I see it the difference should only in  
more syscalls being supported. So if megacli has enough to get going  
on by setting it to just 2.6.12 it should not have a requirement for  
2.6.16. Correct me if I am wrong (and I'll fix the instructions in the  
port)

Of course, if you think mfi(4) should support your board csup up to  
the latest stable and see whether it works. Also run through /usr/ 
local/sbin/megacli instead of /usr/local/libexec/MegaCli as it will  
perform some sanity checks.

>> People should only realise that they are running a linux binary  
>> under emulation in order to manage their mission critical servers.  
>> It is a thing you might not like.
> It has been always this way with lsi ? Actually the difference now  
> is that we are forced to use tools under beta/experimental  
> linuxolator ;)
>>

Sad but true. But I managed with ease to replace a hot spare not that  
long ago.

You might want to have a peek at the cheat sheet hosted at http://tools.rapidsoft.de/perc/

Cheers,
	Ruben

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