From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 14:14:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5442D106566C; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: from mail.ambrisko.com (mail.ambrisko.com [70.91.206.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9F18FC12; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Ambrisko-Me: Yes Received: from server2.ambrisko.com (HELO internal.ambrisko.com) ([192.168.1.2]) by ironport.ambrisko.com with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2012 07:14:51 -0700 Received: from ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by internal.ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2UEEiCi078708; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q2UEEiNb078707; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <201203301414.q2UEEiNb078707@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <201203301001.18681.jhb@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:14:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124d (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: Jan Mikkelsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:50 -0000 John Baldwin writes: | On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:06:40 am Jan Mikkelsen wrote: | > Hi, | > | > I have a loan LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller for testing. | > | > According to the LSI documentation, this device provides the MegaRAID | > interface and the BIOS message mentions MFI. The LSI driver for this device | > also lists support for the 9261 which I know is supported by mfi(4). | > Based on all this, I was hopeful that mfi(4) would work with the 9240. | > | > The pciconf -lv output is: | > | > none3@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x92411000 chip=0x00731000 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 | > vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' | > device = 'MegaRAID SAS 9240' | > class = mass storage | > subclass = RAID | > | > I added this line to src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c | > | > {0x1000, 0x0073, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240"}, | > | > It gave this result (tried with hw.mfi.msi set to 0 and to 1): | > | > mfi0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xfe7bc000-0xfe7bffff,0xfe7c0000-0xfe7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 | > mfi0: Using MSI | > mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 | > mfi0: Frame 0xffffff8000285000 timed out command 0x26C8040 | > mfi0: failed to send init command | > | > The firmware is package 20.10.1-0077, which is the latest on the LSI website. | > | > Is this path likely to work out? Any suggestions on where to go from here? | | You should try the updated mfi(4) driver that Doug (cc'd) is going to soon | merge into HEAD. It syncs up with the mfi(4) driver on LSI's website which | supports several cards that the current mfi(4) driver does not. (I'm not | fully sure if the 9240 is in that group or not. Doug might know however.) Yes, this card is supported with the mfi(4) in projects/head_mfi. Looks like we fixed a couple of last minute found bugs when trying to create a RAID wth mfiutil. This should be fixed now. I'm going to start the merge to -current today. The version in head_mfi can run on older versions of FreeBSD with the changes that Sean did. Note that I wouldn't recomend the 9240 since it can't have a battery option. NVRAM is the key to the speed of mfi(4) cards. However, that won't stop us from supporting it. Doug A.