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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:35:26 -0700
From:      matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>
To:        "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@FreeBSD.org>, "jhb@freebsd.org" <jhb@freebsd.org>, "McConnell, Stephen" <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com>
Subject:   Re: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card
Message-ID:  <517004AE.7070409@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED760761F4E25@inbmail01.lsi.com>
References:  <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED75E70AC49E1@inbmail01.lsi.com> <1366236517.1499.31.camel@localhost> <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED760761F4E25@inbmail01.lsi.com>

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On 04/17/13 23:25, Desai, Kashyap wrote:
> As of now mfi driver support upto LSI's 6Gb/s Raid controller (Product
> name "Thunderblot") "mrsas" driver is a new driver which will support
> for "Thunderbolt" onwards product. So plan is mrsas driver is LSI's
> recommended driver for 6Gb/s onwards Raid controller. We are also
> going to provide priority choice for Thunderbolt controller (which is
> currently supported in mfi). User can choose "mfi" Driver instead of
> "mrsas" for Thunderbolt Controller. In summary, mfi will not have any
> additional support for new controls and it will stop at Thunderbolt.
> In long term, if all user switch to "mrsas" for Thunderbolt card, we
> can also plan to remove support of "Thunderbolt" From "mfi" 

What about other 6Gb/s controllers that are supported under mfi, such as
Skinny Drake?
Would those only be supported by mfi, or by mrsas and mfi?
Is there already a mrsasutil being planned to replace mfiutil?

Matt



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